Gregory in Boston
Broadside for Lady Gregory lecture at Fenway Court
Boston, 1912
During her first visit to America with the Abbey Players in 1911-12, Gregory was repeatedly interviewed or asked to say a few words at social gatherings and decided it would be preferable to give lectures. She was invited by the wealthy art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner to make her "first trial" in the music room at Fenway Court, Boston, the Venetian Renaissance-style palazzo Gardner had built after the death of her husband to house their massive art collection (now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). The lecture went well, and Gregory wrote that it was "the discovery of a new faculty. I shan't feel nervous again." The two determined, independent women, both devoted to promoting art, became firm friends.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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