Lucky eyes and a high heart : the life of Maud Gonne / by Nancy Cardozo
1978, 1st edition. Indianapolis ; New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #430172
ISBN: 067252080X
Physical description; 12 unnumbered pages, 468 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; An overpowering tumult -- The air of freedom -- Mademoiselle -- The making of a rebel -- Banishment -- The bold Boulangiste -- Looking for a revolution -- The wild hillside, the woman of the Sidhe -- A double life -- The new "Speranza" -- Life out of death -- Revival and discord -- La sale epoque -- "In dreams begins responsibility" -- Jubilees and conspiracies -- The land of the clan -- The spirit of '98 -- A spiritual marriage -- The crowded years -- Daughters of Erin -- Broken alliances -- Major MacBride -- Cathleen ni Houlihan -- The great storm -- The red-haired man's wife -- Reconciliations -- A separate peace -- The terrible sacrifice -- Transformations -- The terrible necessity -- The fanatic heart -- La grande patriote -- The tower of age. Subjects; Gonne, Maud 1866-1953. MacBride, Maud Gonne. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939. 1900-1999. Women revolutionaries Ireland ; Biography. Women politicians Ireland ; Biography. Feminists Ireland ; Biography.
Price: €45.00