by Orna Ross | Apr 15, 2022 | Gonne-Yeats Series |
This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about Maud Gonne, her daughter Iseult and the poet, WB Yeats. I’m aiming to have the novel out in June 2022. This extract introduces Maud Gonne and...
by Orna Ross | Aug 27, 2017 | Gonne-Yeats Series |
Her Secret Rose is about the famous love triangle between the Irish poet WB Yeats, his muse Maud Gonne, and her daughter, Iseult. The extract below is doubly fictionalized, being a summary in my novel of events Yeats related in one of his own short stories The Secret...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2015 | Gonne-Yeats Series |
On Yeats day 2015, I travelled to Dublin to collect a first edition copy of WB Yeat's short story collection, The Secret Rose, from the lovely Tanya Collie of Broadford books. This first edition was purchased by a Mr Danny O'Sullivan as part of my crowdfunder...