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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Colm Toibin's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman Augusta GregoryA remarkable figure in Celtic history she was married to an MP and land-owner yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed actively championing causes close to her heart At once conservative and radical in her beliefs she saw no conflict in idealizing and mythologizing the Irish peasantry for example while her landlord husband introduced legislation that would in part lead to the widespread misery poverty and starvation of the Great Famine Nevertheless as founder of the Abbey Theatre an outspoken opponent of censorship and mentor muse and mother-figure to W B Yeats Augusta Gregory played a pivotal role in shaping Irish literary and dramatic history
Moreover despite her parents' early predictions of spinsterhood she was no matronly figure engaging in a passionate affair while newly-wedded and as she approached sixty falling for a man almost twenty years her junior
Moreover despite her parents' early predictions of spinsterhood she was no matronly figure engaging in a passionate affair while newly-wedded and as she approached sixty falling for a man almost twenty years her junior
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