The Cuala Press and its predecessor, the Dun Emer Press, are well known as important private presses of the twentieth century operated primarily by working women. The driving force behind both presses was Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. In Gifford Lewis's opinion previous commentary, in particular William H. Murphy's Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1978), has tended to portray Elizabeth `as an unpleasant person verging on the mentally unstable.' This characterization, Lewis ...