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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 · The newly married Yeats—famous for lines like “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” and “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree”—was also the newly twice-rejected Yeats. Georgie was his third in a series of quick-fire marriage proposals that began with his longtime obsession, Maud Gonne.
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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...
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...
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.
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. The execution in 1916 of John MacBride had released Maud...
Feb 20, 2003 · When Iseult finally rejected him in the summer of 1917, he decided to propose to a young Englishwoman, Georgie Hyde-Lees. He wrote to Lady Gregory: ‘I certainly feel very tired & have a great longing for order, for routine & shall be content if I find a friendly serviceable woman.
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