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Iseult Lucille Germaine Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was the daughter of the Irish republican revolutionary Maud Gonne and the French politician and journalist Lucien Millevoye. She married the novelist Francis Stuart in 1920.
Apr 12, 2022 · Iseult, in form and intelligence, was very like her mother, even as a young girl. Maud acknowledged Iseult’s talents in literature and philosophy and was eager to have Yeats help cultivate them. Iseult was also fond of Yeats and, at age 14, confessed in a diary that she was in love with him.
Gonne, Iseult (1894–1954), writer and muse, was born 6 August 1894 in Paris, daughter of Lucien Millevoye, French politician, lawyer, and journalist, and Maud Gonne (qv), Irish revolutionary nationalist. She was their second child and was conceived in the memorial chapel of their first, short-lived son, Georges.
Iseult Gonne was the daughter of the Irish nationalist, Maud Gonne. As an illegitimate daughter who lived in France, it was not until the divorce case between Maud Gonne and John MacBride took place in 1905-6 that her existence became known to the wider public.
Sep 28, 2012 · Iseult Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was conceived in the mausoleum of her late brother in an attempt by her parents to reincarnate their dead, still adored infant son. She is remembered in history as a muse and love interest of W.B. Yeats and the inspiration for his famous poem ‘To a Child Dancing in the Wind’ among others.
This article gives a brief biographical sketch of Iseult Gonne, daughter of Irish activist Maud Gonne and wife of the Irish author Francis Stuart. It also describes and analyzes her relationship with the poet W.B. Yeats, who once proposed to her, and discusses her role in several of Yeats's poems, including "To a Child Dancing in the Wind."
Iseult Gonne (1894-1954) Maud had two children from of an affair with French politician Lucien Millevoye. George, in 1890, who died as an infant of meningitis, and Iseult in 1894.
Iseult, the pupil as Muse, helped Yeats formulate his alternative to Freud's theories of the role of desire and sublimation in creativity. Her presence, ideas, and her own poetry profoundly influenced Yeats's work during this critical period. Yeats proposed marriage to Iseult in September 1917.
May 26, 2022 · In the remarkably bitter separation, Maud Gonne claimed that MacBride, quite apart from being drunken, feckless, and uncongenial, had sexually assaulted 10-year-old Iseult, and that relations ...
Gonne, and in the index to Yeats's Memoirs, Iseult was actually born on August 6, 1894 (Balliett. 29). She was educated at a Carmelite convent in France, in Laval, but was probably never as. innocent as that fact might sentimentally imply. For one thing, she was almost certainly aware. from the beginning of her illegitimacy.
