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Walter de la Mare, Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees), William Butler Yeats, unknown woman, summer 1930; photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968) was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats.
Dec 5, 2018 · Deep in the birches and oaks of Ashdown Forest, William Butler Yeats and his new bride Georgie Hyde-Lees were having a miserable first few days of marriage. A.A. Milne would later turn the same Sussex forest into the cheerful Hundred Acre Wood, but the mood on the Yeats’ honeymoon in 1917 was as gloomy as a funeral with Eeyore.
May 18, 2011 · This is one way of describing the life of Bertha Georgie Hyde Lees Yeats, the fascinating woman who devoted her entire adult life to the needs and, after his death, reputation of an...
May 22, 1999 · Yeats had married the 25-year-old Englishwoman Georgina Hyde-Lees in October 1917, more or less on the rebound, when he was 52.
That September, Yeats proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), known as George, whom he had met through Olivia Shakespear. Despite warnings from her friends—"George ... you can't. He must be dead"—Hyde-Lees accepted, and the two were married on 20 October 1917.
Mar 1, 2013 · After his marriage to Bertha Georgie Hyde Lees in a register office in Paddington on 20 October 1917, W. B. Yeats fell into ‘great gloom’. He accused himself of having ‘betrayed three people’, his ex-lover Maud Gonne, Gonne's daughter Iseult who had rejected his proposal of marriage earlier that year, and his new wife.
Oct 20, 2002 · THE last thing Mrs. William Butler Yeats wanted was a biography. Georgie Hyde Lees was an ex-art student with some experience of dabbling in the spirit world and a comfortable private...
Jan 21, 2022 · History has remembered Georgie Hyde-Lees, known now by her married name, George Yeats, for being married to a foremost poet of the Twentieth Century: William Butler Yeats. What has been overlooked, or perhaps minimized, by viewing her through the lens of her famous...
Sep 19, 1999 · Describes how he married Bertha Georgie Hyde-Lees... Georgie had known Yeats for years, had attended seances with him, and had been sponsored by him into the Hermetic Order of the Golden...
GEORGE YEATS: POET'S WIFE* By CURTIS B. BRADFORD I MRS. W. B. Yeats was christened G?orgie Hyde-Lees. The impossibility of "G?orgie" was soon recognized, and all her life long she was called "George". I first met George Yeats in October, 1954, at lunch in the University Club, St. Steven's Green, Dublin. I had asked Professor H. O.
