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Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (11 March 1868 – 16 January 1940), known as Lolly, was an Irish educator and publisher. She worked as an art teacher and published several books on art, and was a founder of Dun Emer Press which published several works by her brother W. B. Yeats.
Their Story. In the summer of 1902, Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, along with their father, John B Yeats, moved to Churchtown in county Dublin, so beginning a forty-year period of prodigious creativity, enterprise, and consequent acclaim.
Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, fondly known within the family as ‘Lily & Lollie’, respectively, were notable artists, skilled crafts people and courageous cultural and entrepreneurial innovators, who advanced the emancipation of women through training and education.
Mar 28, 2022 · Elizabeth Yeats had initially begun her career working with William Morris, founder of the Kelmscott Press, and Cuala took inspiration from Morris’s Arts and Crafts movement.
Jun 25, 2022 · But what of their sisters, the forgotten Yeats women? Sisters Elizabeth and Lily Yeats share a fleeting derogatory reference in James Joyce's Ulysses where they are labelled the "weird...
Mar 18, 2023 · Susan Mary Yeats and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, born in 1866 and 1868, were sandwiched in their talented family between poet William Butler Yeats and painter Jack.
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In his autobiography and letters the Irish poet W.B. Yeats gives the impression that he had one rather shadowy sister on the fringes of his life. In reality the poet was for long periods largely...
