The Autobiography Of Maud Gonne: A Servant Of The Queen

Maud Gonne Is Part Of Irish History: Her Founding Of The Daughters Of Ireland, In 1900, Was The Key That Effectively Opened The Door Of Twentieth-century Politics To Irish Women. Still Remembered In Ireland For The Inspiring Public Speeches She Made On Behalf Of The Suffering -- Those Evicted From Their Homes In Western Ireland, The Treason-felony Prisoners On The Isle Of Wright, Indeed All Those Whom She Saw As Victims Of Imperialism -- She Is Known, Too, Within And Outside Ireland As The Woman W. B. Yeats Loved And Celebrated In His Poems. This Book Is Her Story. -- Publishers Description I. Words Remembered -- Ii. Education -- Iii. Débutante -- Iv. Uncle William -- V. The Alliance -- Vi. Looking For Work -- Vii. Evictions -- Viii. My First Speech -- Ix. The Woman Of The Sidhe -- X. The Blue Mountain -- Xi. Working For Prisoners -- Xii. La Saint Patrice -- Xiii. Countering A Plot -- Xiv. Spies -- Xv. Occult Experiences -- Xvi. Victoria's Jubilee -- Xvii. In America -- Xviii. Famine -- Xix. The '98 Centenary -- Xx. England's Difficulty . . . -- Xxi. End Of The Alliance -- Xxii. Betrayal -- Xxiii. Days Of Gloom -- Xxiv. The New Century -- Xxv. The Battle Of The Rotunda -- Xxvi. The Inevitability Of The Church -- Xxvii. Dusk Edited By A. Norman Jeffares And Anna Macbride White. Rev. Ed. Of: A Servant Of The Queen. Gertrude Cross, Buckinghamshire : C. Smythe, 1994. Includes Index.