Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta Persse, known as Lady Gregory, was born on 15 March 1852 at Roxborough, in County Galway, into the Anglo-Irish gentry. In 1880 she married Sir William Gregory, thirty-six years her senior and a former governor of Ceylon, and became a widow in 1892. She learned Irish, collected tales around her estate of Coole and in 1899 founded, with William Butler Yeats, the literary theatre that would become the Abbey; she wrote or translated nearly forty plays. She died on 22 May 1932.

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• TaleCuchulain of MuirthemneLady Gregory · 1902LiteraturePublic domain