George hyde-lees biography

Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats (born

Hyde-Lees attends a number of schools in Knightsbridge , London art schools, studies languages and classics, and piano. She becomes a close friend of Dorothy Shakespear , who is fond of Georgie and shares many of her interests despite being six years her senior. She continues to make the rounds of country estates with her mother and Olivia and Dorothy Shakespear.

It is in their company in or , as a seventeen-year-old, that one morning she meets W. Yeats at the British Museum and again that afternoon during tea at the Shakespears. Seven years later, when Hyde-Lees is 25 and Yeats is 52, he asks her to marry him. Only a few weeks earlier, Iseult Gonne , the daughter of Maud Gonne whom Yeats had loved for many years, had rejected his marriage proposal.

She and Yeats marry just three weeks later, on October 20, , in a public register office, witnessed by her mother and Ezra Pound. Yeats writes about her psychography days later in what is to be A Vision , and it holds the marriage together for many years. Within a year of marriage, Yeats declares her name of Georgie to be insufferable, and henceforth calls her George.

The couple has two children, Anne and Michael. As a descendant of Joshua Doyle b. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Leave a comment Cancel reply. Comment Subscribe Subscribed. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress.