The Yeats sisters and the Cuala / Gifford Lewis
Material type: TextPublication details: Blackrock, Co. Dublin Irish Academic Press c1994ISBN:- 0716525259
- 759.2915 YEA
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759.2915 VER Walter Verling : a sixty-year retrospective / | 759.2915 WHI Art is my life a tribute to James White / | 759.2915 WHI Art is my life a tribute to James White / | 759.2915 YEA The Yeats sisters and the Cuala / | 759.2915 YEA IMAGES IN YEATS | 759.2915 YEA Jack B. Yeats in the National Gallery of Ireland Hilary Pyle | 759.2915 YEA The art of Jack B. Yeats T.G. Rosenthal chronology, list of exhibitions, bibliography and notes on the plates by Hilary Pyle |
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The Yeats sisters have long been over- shadowed by their famous brothers- Jack and William. Nevertheless they themselves made a significant contribution to the cultural life of Ireland through their involvement with Cuala industries. The 'Cuala' as it was popularly known, was an Irish female craft co-operative on the English Arts and Crafts model, founded and managed by the sisters. Elisabeth ran the printing department with William as editor to the Press, while Lily, who was trained in the Morris workshops, ran the embroidery department. Contrary to appearances, the Yeats sisters were not typical middle-class philanthropists but poor spinsters, thrown onto their own resources, who supported themselves and their family. They funded their self-absorbed and improvident father until his death in New York in 1922 The Yeats children carried through their lives resentments from their painful childhood; the two sisters were incompatible; W.B.'S opinion of his sisters was rather blinkered and patronising. The lives of Elizabeth and Lily deserve separate notice freed from his great shadow and from his disparagement.
Bibliography: p193-194. - Includes index