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Family Dynamics and Women’s Work at Dun Emer and Cuala Family Dynamics and Women’s Work at Dun Emer and Cuala
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In the Seven Woods: WBY and Lolly Remaking and Making In the Seven Woods: WBY and Lolly Remaking and Making
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Embroidering ‘The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves’: WBY and Lily Making It New Embroidering ‘The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves’: WBY and Lily Making It New
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Cuala After WBY Cuala After WBY
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30 Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity
Get accessElizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux is Professor of English emerita, Special Assistant to the Provost, and Past Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Boston University. She is the author of Yeats and the Visual Arts, Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts, and numerous essays on modern poetry. With Neil Fraistat, she co-edited Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. Beth has served on the faculty of the Yeats International Summer School, and with fellow faculty member, actor Sam McCready, wrote and performed Yeats’s Gallery, a multimedia performance of Yeats’s poems with commentary, first presented at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC. Before moving to BU, Beth taught at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is Professor of English emerita.
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Published:18 July 2023
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Abstract
This chapter explores collaboration at the Irish craft cooperative Dun Emer (later Cuala) Industries, co-founded by William Butler Yeats’s sisters Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (Lolly) and Susan Mary Yeats (Lily). Lily ran the embroidery division, Lolly the hand press, with W. B. Yeats as literary editor. Clashing personalities and gender dynamics made for contentious relations, especially among these three siblings. Nevertheless, out of their collaboration came WBY’s emergence as a modern poet, the establishment of Dun Emer/Cuala Press as one of the most important fine printing presses of the twentieth century, and Lily’s underappreciated, distinctive embroideries. The collaboration of WBY with Lolly on his volume of poems In the Seven Woods (1903), the press’s first book, and the collaboration of WBY with Lily in the 1930s on embroidered illustrations to his poems demonstrate the remarkable creativity that flourished despite, and perhaps at times sharpened by, the contention in a family business that ran from 1902 to 1986.
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