Family Secrets (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William M. Murphy
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: The mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Ireland and England
- Principal Characters: John Butler Yeats, Susan Pollexfen Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Susan Mary (Lily) Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet (Lollie) Yeats, John Butler (Jack) Yeats, Jr.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Brothers and sisters, England or English people, Creative process, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: England, Ireland
Noteworthy accomplishment in the arts among siblings is not as uncommon as William M. Murphy implies in his study Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives. The Arnold, Brontë, Huxley, Mann, James, and Stephen as well as Yeats families all produced distinguished brother and sister artists in the hundred years between 1840 and 1940. What does seem remarkable is the common features one discovers in the formation process: parents whose achievements were less than one might expect given the extent of their talents, or whose early death imposed immediate pressures upon...
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