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Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery 1880-1935
Sin Ad Mccoole
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Description for Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery 1880-1935
Paperback. This lavishly illustrated, richly documented life of Lady Lavery relates how one beautiful American woman reinvented herself as 'a simple Irish girl' and came to personify Eire on Ireland's banknotes, 'living and dying .. as though some ballad-singer had sung it all'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157. .
Lady Lavery has been remembered for the numerous portraits by her husband, the painter Sir John Lavery, celebrated in 'The Municipal Gallery Re-visited' by W.B. Yeats.This first biography of Hazel, first published in 1996 and now reissued, tells the story of how a girl from boomtown Chicago became one of the most stylish society hostesses in London, turning her husband's studio into a hub of Anglo-Irish diplomacy, from the 1921 Treaty negotiations through the tumultuous early years of the Irish Free State. Using hitherto-unpublished letters and scrapbooks, Sinead McCoole gives a vivid account of Hazel's artistic and political preoccupations, and ... Read more
Lady Lavery has been remembered for the numerous portraits by her husband, the painter Sir John Lavery, celebrated in 'The Municipal Gallery Re-visited' by W.B. Yeats.This first biography of Hazel, first published in 1996 and now reissued, tells the story of how a girl from boomtown Chicago became one of the most stylish society hostesses in London, turning her husband's studio into a hub of Anglo-Irish diplomacy, from the 1921 Treaty negotiations through the tumultuous early years of the Irish Free State. Using hitherto-unpublished letters and scrapbooks, Sinead McCoole gives a vivid account of Hazel's artistic and political preoccupations, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843516439
SKU
V9781843516439
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About Sin Ad Mccoole
Sinead McCoole is a historian, curator and broadcaster. Her books include Guns and Chiffon (Dublin 1997), No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists 1900-1923 (Dublin 2003) and Easter Widows (Dublin 2014). She was appointed to the Government's Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries in 2012.
Reviews for Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery 1880-1935
'[Hazel's] importance in Irish history is established by this book ... a memorable portrait.' Roy Foster, The Independent