Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953)
J.E. Purdy & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Published 1901
Photographic print
14 x 10 cm.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Repro. No. LC-DIG-ds-14057 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-97179 (black and white film copy)
Maud Gonne is described here as an "English political activist, suffragist, and actress." Although her mother was English, and she was born in Surrey, Maud Gonne was a passionate supporter of Irish nationalism. W. B. Yeats's fell passionately in love with her but she rejected him, nevertheless remaining his long-time muse. She eventually married Major John MacBride, a nationalist who was executed after the Easter Rising of April 1916.
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