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The play library was reviewed and edited by university professors with a focus in historic plays by women.
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Lady Augusta Gregory
Isabella Augusta Persse was born on March 15, 1852, the youngest of sixteen children in her Irish family. When she was twenty-eight years of age, she married Sir William Henry Gregory, thirty-five years her senior and a landowner and politician, which perhaps influenced Lady Gregory’s own engagement in politics later in her life. They had one son together, and after her husband died in 1892, Lady Gregory began writing. Soon after, she met William Butler Yeats with whom she would collaborate f…
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