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George's Ghosts

A New Life of W.B. Yeats

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"Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George." "George's Ghosts looks at Yeats through the lens of the Automatic Script, the trance-like communication with supposed spirits that George conducted during the early years of their marriage. The full transcript of this intense occult adventure was not available until 1992 and remains virtually untouched by biographers. Maddox finds the Script to have been a ghostly form of family planning - as well as one of the most ingenious ploys ever used by a wife to take her husband's mind off another woman."--BOOK JACKET

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George's Ghosts, Brenda Maddox

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1999
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Title
George's Ghosts
Subtitle
A New Life of W.B. Yeats
Language
English
Publisher
Picador
Released
1999
Format
Hardcover
Pages
444
ISBN10
0330376527
ISBN13
9780330376525
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"Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George." "George's Ghosts looks at Yeats through the lens of the Automatic Script, the trance-like communication with supposed spirits that George conducted during the early years of their marriage. The full transcript of this intense occult adventure was not available until 1992 and remains virtually untouched by biographers. Maddox finds the Script to have been a ghostly form of family planning - as well as one of the most ingenious ploys ever used by a wife to take her husband's mind off another woman."--BOOK JACKET