Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1918-1940.

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Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1918-1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191063503

Correspondence mostly concerns Van Wyck Brooks's friendship with Elizabeth Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats. There are also included two brief obituaries about Elizabeth Yeats.

10 items (13 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940

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Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (known by her family as “Lolly”) was born on March 11, 1868, in London, the third surviving child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen. In the 1880s she began writing and contributed to The Pleiades, an amateur magazine she created with friends. She completed training as a kindergarten teacher in 1892 and taught art for several years afterwards. She also published four popular painting manuals during this time. In 1900, Yeats and her family moved from London to Du...