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Maud Gonne timeline

Jorn Barger March 2001 (updated Apr2001)

Other bios: [EB] [bio]


Sources

rff = RF Foster's WB Yeats [Amazon]
dtm = Gomes's Dawning of the Theosophist Movement [Amazon]
gds = RA Gilbert's The Golden Dawn Scrapbook [Amazon]
wbya = WBY's Autobiographies (Collected Works Vol 3) [Amazon]
anj = AN Jeffares' WBY: a new biography [Amazon]
gyL = MacBride and Jeffares' The Gonne-Yeats Letters [Amazon]
sb = WBY's The Speckled Bird (O'Donnell, ed) [Bibliofind] [ABE]
ygd = GM Harper's Yeats's Golden Dawn [Bibliofind] [ABE]
dh = JE&GW Dunleavy's Douglas Hyde [Bibliofind] [ABE]
lfae = Alan Denson's Letters from AE [Bibliofind] [ABE]
rbd = RB Davis's George William Russell ('AE') [Bibliofind] [ABE]
cl1y = John Kelly's Collected Letters of WBY: Vol 1, 1865-1895 [Bibliofind] [ABE]
mgyb = Samuel Levenson's Maud Gonne: Yeats' Beloved [Bibliofind] [ABE]

Related pages: Yeats, AE, The Household, Theosophy, gossip, 25 faves


Timeline 1865: 13Jun: William Butler Yeats born in Dublin [EB] [bio] [timeline] ditto

1865: 19Dec: Thomas Gonne marries Edith Cook in East Peckham, Kent, UK [mgyb9]

1866? 21Dec? Maud Gonne born in England [EB] [bio] (d1953) [gyL5]

maybe 20Dec 1865

1868: father posted to Ireland, house in Howth [mgyb11]

move to 'Floraville' in Donnybrook

1871: 21Jun: mother dies (27yo Edith Frith Gonne) [mgyb13]

c1880: already 5 ft 10 [mgyb16]

c1882: long stay in Rome, proposal at Colosseum from 'Italian' [mgyb18] or from Charles Eyre [gyL8]

1882: 06May: Gonnes in Dublin for Phoenix Park murders [mgyb22]

1883-85: father has no particular posting [gyL8]

1884: Maud returns to Dublin to run father's household [mgyb24]

1885: 21Nov: Contemporary Club founded (incl Hyde, JBY, Sigerson, AE, JF Taylor, Davitt, Rolleston, O'Leary, Maud Gonne?)

1886: mid-Nov: MaudG (already in love with Millevoye???) offers soul to devil in exchange for "control of her own life" [mgyb145] (this is what she told WBY in Dec 1898)

1886: 30Nov: death of father of typhoid fever [gyL9]

1886: 03Dec: London Times report on funeral of Colnel Gonne [mgyb26]

1887: uncle William claims there's no inheritance, MaudG announced as lead in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" but falls ill, meets Millevoye [gyL10]

1887: Apr: WBY moves back to London
1887: summer: MaudG starts affair with Lucien Millevoye (already-married journalist)
1887: Dec? MaudG inherits some £20,000 at age 21 [mgyb31 says 17Apr]

'a great red-haired yahoo of a woman' [rff91]

Maud smuggles Boulangist papers into Russia, meets Stead [mgyb39]

Maud introduces self to Michael Davitt [mgyb43]

1888: Mar: Yeats family back in Bedford Park

1888? Oldham brings Maud to Contemporary Club [mgyb47]

Maud organises Irish concert [mgyb47]

1888: 16Dec: Douglas Hyde meets MaudG at Sigersons [mgyb63] (Irish lessons thru Feb and Mar)

Golden Dawn members:

1888: Mathers, Wescott, Woodman
1889-90: Moina Bergson, Ayton, Horniman, Constance Wilde (briefly)
1890: WBY, Florence Farr
1891: Maud Gonne (briefly)
1892: Todhunter. (Mathers to Paris, Wescott leads in London)
1893: George Pollexfen (124 total)
1897: (Farr leads in London)

1889: 30Jan: love at first sight for Maud Gonne

1889: May: Maud's dream of past life as WBY's sister [mgyb78]

1890: 11Jan: MaudG secretly gives birth to Millvoye's son Georges [rff92; mgyb77 says 24May 1889 'Georgette Marie Lousie Gon']
1890: WBY and Rhys found the Rhymers Club in London, with Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, and Arthur Symons

1890: Maud finances book of poems by Ellen O'Leary [mgyb47]

1890: WBY joins Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn [info]

he chose the occult name 'Demon Est Deus Inversus' ('the Demon' for short!) [rff104, 242]

MaudG plans to break with Millevoye and live in Ireland with Georges [mgyb145]

1891: 31Aug: death of Georges Gonne of meningitis [anj59 says 29Jul]
1891: 30Sep: suicide of Boulanger [mgyb65]
1891: death of Parnell (6 Oct)
1891: 10Oct: WBY meets Maud in Dublin one same mailboat carrying Parnell's body [anj59] 1891: Nov: Maud Gonne joins Golden Dawn [anj62]
1891: Dec? Maud visits London from Paris [anj62]

Gonne's 1yo son died just before Parnell, and WBY stepped in to console her, especially via magick rituals. She became addicted to chloroform to fall asleep. [gyL460]

Golden Dawn members included: WBY, Maud Gonne, Annie Horniman, Arthur Machen [etext] and Arthur Waite timeline [pix]

1892: founded: Irish Literary Society
1892: WBY's play The Countess Kathleen written for MaudG
1892: 16Jan: WBY fetes Maud in United Ireland article 'The New Speranza' [mgyb98; also Boston Pilot in July: gyL458]
1892: Mar? Maud in Dublin for Young Ireland League? [mgyb103]
1892: spring: Maud speech reprinted in Revue Catholique [mgyb99]
1892: 01Nov? Maud in Dublin? [mgyb103]

no-date: UK scandalised by article about Maud and evictions in French 'Figaro' [mgyb102]

WBY calls Maud 'Scotia' [gyL458]

1893 lecture tour arranged by WBY [gyL49]
20-27Jan: Cork
27Jan-02Feb: Westport, Mayo
04-08Feb: Rosomoon
12-15Feb: Loughrea
17Feb: Dublin meeting
20-25Feb: New Ross
?: Listowel

1893: Mar: MaudG lectures in France [gyL50]
1893: Jun: interview about Portland prisoners [gyL50]
1893: 20-29Oct: MaudG in London, meets Horniman [gyL51]
1893: ?14Nov: Iseult conceived on Georges' tomb (?)

1893: WBY's poems The Rose [etext]

1894: Feb: WBY and MaudG see 'Axel' in Paris, and take hashish together [mgyb105, gyL460]
1894: 06Aug: Iseult Gonne born [rff157; gyL52]
1894: Dec: resigns OGD [gyL460]

1895: Apr: MaudG moves to 7 Ave d'Eylau [gyL52]
1895: ?20Oct-11Nov: Maud staying at Maples Hotel in Dublin [gyL52]
1895: Nov: Maud in Dublin sees vision of WBY [anj83]
1895: 13Nov (Wed): Maud arrives London via Belfast, WBY visits [gyL54]
1895: 16Nov: Maud returns to Paris

1896: Feb? WBY's first affair, with Olivia Shakespear [rff158]
1896: 10Mar: MaudG in London? [gyL58]
1896: 17Mar: Maud sees Mathers at St Pat's banquet in Paris [gyL59]
1896: 22Mar: Maud starts lecture tour in France [gyL59]
1896: Apr: quick visits to London and Glasgow, then a month in Dublin [gyL59]
1896: 23May: Dublin gossip knows (via London papers?) of WBY's affair with 'widow' [gyL60]
1896: 24-31May: Maud tours west Ireland [gyL60]
1896: 01-06Jun: Maud in London

1896: Aug: tour of west Ireland w/Symons, stay w/Martyn, meets LadyG, vision of female archer

Symons called LadyG 'La Strega' (the witch) and said that once she put her 'terrible eye' on WBY he was lost to lyric poetry [rff170]

1896: Dec: WBY visits Paris, experiments with hashish, sees 'Ubu Roi' in first run, urges Synge to write about Ireland [rff172] [info]

1897: Jan: MaudG and WBY found Paris branch of Young Ireland [rff173]
1897: Feb: break with Olivia Shakespear over MaudG [rff173]

...She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away. [etext]

1897: 28Feb: Maud speaks to Young Ireland in Glasgow [gyL64]

1897: Mar: Teeling ejected by Cremont for saying Maud is a spy [mgyb117]

1897: 01May: first of 18 monthly issues of L'Irlande Libre published by Maud [mgyb115, gyL64] (10c per, 4pp 9-by-12)

1897: Apr-Oct: Maud speaks 3 times in Paris, 4 in Dublin, plus London, York, Glasgow, Manchester, Cork [mgyb116]

1897: 21Jun: MaudG's speech to Dublin public meeting provokes anti-British riots [rff181]

WBY: "She is now the idol of the mob & deserves to be." [rff181]

no-date: Maud wins £100 at French casino for defense of Jubilee prisoners [mgyb125]

1897: 17Oct-Dec: MaudG raising money in USA (£1000) [rff191]

1898: 12Jun: MaudG falls out of carriage and breaks arm on way to tribute to Lord Edward Fitzgerald [rff194]

1898: 'spiritual marriage' between WBY and Maud Gonne
1898: Dec: LadyG meets MaudG: 'instead of beauty I saw a death's head'

"It is Maud Gonne and the Poet. She has a radiance as of sunlight. Yeats, that leopard of the moon, holds back in a leash a huge lion-colored Great Dane--Maud Gonne's dog, Dagda." [cite]

1900: 13?Dec (Wed): Maud speaks in Limerick [article]

no-date: Sarah Purser portrait [pic]

Russell, Maud Gonne and several others leave INTS from political objections (WBY wanted it poetic not political); INTS gains Synge, actress Sara Allgood, and patroness Anne Horniman (who demands there be no political slant to their work) [history] [Russell- 1902?]

1917: WBY proposes to Iseult Gonne

no-date: Ezra Pound has affair with Iseult Gonne

1920: 26yo Iseult Gonne marries 18yo Francis Stuart [info] (physically abusive; two children)


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