# otd yeats wby

🪡b. 1866 Susan "Lily" Yeats, embroiderer, co-founded Ireland's 20c craft industry. Lived in Woodstock Rd + Blenheim Rd, studied at Chiswick School of Art, worked for May Morris at Kelmscott Hse, four of the ten locations on our📱#Yeats trail. Go-live Tue 6 Sep! https://t.co/itohcvMn5X

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2022-08-26

1889, 23-yr-old Dublin-born poet lectures at Southwark Irish Literary Society on one of his heroes, Dublin-born poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) who first brought the "ghazal" to poetry in English with his translations of Hafiz

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2022-05-29

"The jester walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward...
But the young queen would not listen
(The Cap and Bells, pub. 1894)
Explore 1st-garden-suburb where "young jester" discovered (+took for theme) unrequited love💔 https://t.co/Kf3HSWQTWQ

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2022-03-18

Favourite retreat at end of our many "Land of Heart's Desire" walks, , with its Arts-&-Crafts Wm De Morgan tiles, and inn-sign originally painted by neighbour T. Matthews Rooke whose wife Leonora taught the Yeats siblings country dancing! https://t.co/wK7V1iGSxC

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2021-05-09

first staged play "Land of Heart's Desire" ends its run 1894: companion piece by Irish poet + neighbour, John Todhunter (No.3 The Orchard); both produced by Todhunter's neighbour Florence Farr + funded by Annie Horniman who later helped fund

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2021-04-14

in 1888 the family moved to 3 Blenheim Rd where they lived until 1902, where Willie wrote 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' that first summer, co-founded the (still going strong) + met his great unrequited love, Maud Gonne! https://t.co/NjZAFMClf7

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2021-03-24