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Gifford Lewis The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala
Blackrock, Co. Dublin Irish Academic Press 1994 0716525259 / 9780716525257 First Edition Green Cloth Near Fine Near Fine
xiv., 199pp., 22 b/w plates, 17 b/w illus., biblio.. Minor bumping to extremities. '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'
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