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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.
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.
- Barry Sheils
- 2013
Feb 20, 2003 · Thus in October 1917 George Hyde-Lees found herself on her honeymoon with W.B. Yeats, who was suffering from nervous stomach disorders. They went first to his flat in London and then to a hotel on the edge of Ashdown Forest, where he received a note from Iseult wishing him well.
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Oct 1, 2015 · Yeats and his new wife, George Hyde-Lees, worked with an architect to transform the tower into a sanctuary of inspiration, its walls and curtains awash in striking colors. The poet often wrote...
