Yeats, Elizabeth (1868–1940)
Yeats, Elizabeth (1868–1940)
Irish printer and publisher. Name variations: Lolly Yeats. Born Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Mar 11, 1868, in Regent's Park, London, England; died Jan 16, 1940, in Dublin, Ireland; dau. of John Butler Yeats, known as J. B. Yeats, and Susan Pollexfen Yeats; sister of William Butler Yeats (the poet) and Lily Yeats; educated at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, and Froebel College, London; never married; no children.
Artisan, printer and publisher whose Cuala Press, co-owned with sister, produced books by such writers as J. M. Synge and their brother W. B. Yeats in editions noted for grace and simplicity; worked for May Morris as a children's art teacher; trained as a Froebel teacher (1890s), then taught in London and Dublin; published the 1st of 4 brushwork manuals (1895), which proved successful; trained as a process engraver; recruited by Evelyn Gleeson to run the printing department of Dun Emer Industries, the arts and crafts cooperative based on the Morris model (1902); with sister, became an independent entity within Dun Emer (1904); published brother's collection of poems In the Seven Woods; with sister, severed connection with Dun Emer (1907) and set up the Cuala Press, the only private press run by women.
See also Gifford Lewis, The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press (1994); and Women in World History.