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Augusta, Lady Gregory

1852 - 1932

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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, she turned against it. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augusta, Lady Gregory is the 544th most popular writer (up from 4,797th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 204th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among writers, Augusta, Lady Gregory ranks 544 out of 7,302. Before her are Luo Guanzhong, Nâzım Hikmet, Osip Mandelstam, Seneca the Elder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Camille Flammarion. After her are Jean Paul, Enid Blyton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rudaki, and Madame de La Fayette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Augusta, Lady Gregory ranks 16. Before her are Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Francisco Tárrega, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and Joseph Joffre. After her are William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Alice Liddell, Constantin Fehrenbach, Christian Krohg, and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. Among people deceased in 1932, Augusta, Lady Gregory ranks 12. Before her are Aristide Briand, Ronald Ross, Giuseppe Peano, Manuel II of Portugal, King C. Gillette, and Paul Doumer. After her are Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Max Wolf, Edgar Wallace, and George Eastman.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Augusta, Lady Gregory ranks 32 out of 549. Before her are W. B. Yeats (1865), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), Anne Bonny (1702), Ernest Shackleton (1874), John Field (1782), and Kevin Farrell (1947). After her are George Francis FitzGerald (1851), Columbanus (540), Michael D. Higgins (1941), Bertie Ahern (1951), Laurence Sterne (1713), and Harald Gille (1103).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Augusta, Lady Gregory ranks 8. Before her are Oscar Wilde (1854), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Jonathan Swift (1667), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), and W. B. Yeats (1865). After her are Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), Saint Gall (550), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Sheridan Le Fanu (1814).

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