Lady Augusta Gregory
From a glass negative
5 x 7 inches or smaller
New York Public Library, Washington, D.C.
Repro. no. LC-DIG-ggbain-06199 (digital file from original negative).
In the George Grantham Bain Collection
Lady Gregory, whose maiden name was Persse, came from an old family long settled in Galway. She had married the owner of the Coole Park estates, but had been widowed as a young woman, several years before she met Yeats. Taking a keen interest in him, she became deeply involved in the Irish National Theatre project, in particular, writing plays for it and acting in them herself. [See reproduction of postcard below.]
Image and caption material added by Jacqueline Banerjee, who also added the comment. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
