Early Memories; Some Chapters Of Autobiography - Softcover

Butler Yeats, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9354544487 ISBN 13: 9789354544484

Verlag: Alpha Editions, 2021

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A quiet, intimate doorway into a life lived in ink and memory. Early Memories opens a window onto a child's world in late nineteenth¿century Ireland, where family life, art, and atmosphere mingle to illuminate a nation's cultural heartbeat. This vividly crafted autobiographical memoir blends personal recollection with broader historical reminiscences, tracing childhood memories through an artistic upbringing and a household where literature and faith shaped daily life. The book speaks directly to readers of memoirs and to biographers alike, offering a rare, human-scale portrait of a generation and place that influenced Catholic, literary, and cultural history in Ireland. Its lucid, reflective prose invites casual readers to feel the texture of rooms, routines, and riven loyalties, while rewarding scholars with context and nuance that illuminate Victorian era Ireland and the late nineteenth century. John Butler Yeats's work stands as a touchstone of Irish literary memoirs, a bridge between private memory and public memory. It is a note of cultural history written with warmth and restraint, a testament to how one family's story can illuminate a nation's artistic life. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, inviting both devotion and discovery for memoir readers and serious collectors alike.

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John Butler Yeats, an Irish artist, was the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats, and Jack Butler Yeats. The National Gallery of Ireland houses several of his oil and paper portraits, including one of his son William, painted in 1900. Raymond Keaveney (2002) considers his portrait of John O'Leary from 1904 to be his greatest. He traveled to New York on the RMS Campania with his daughter Lily in 1907, at the age of 68, and never returned to Ireland. In October 1909, he moved into his final residence, a boarding house managed by the Petitpas sisters at 317 West 29th Street. In New York, he became associated with members of the Ashcan School of painters. He died in the boarding house on February 3, 1922. Edmund Quinn created a death mask, which is now in the collection of the Yeats Society in Sligo. John Butler Yeats is buried at Chestertown Rural Cemetery in Chestertown, New York, with his friend Jeanne Robert Foster.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9354544487
• ISBN 13: 9789354544484
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 58
• Herausgeber: Corbet Yeats Elizabeth
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