Revolutionary lives : Constance and Casimir Markievicz /
By: Arrington, Lauren.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016Description: xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780691161242; 9780691161242:; 0691161240.Subject(s): Markievicz, Constance de / 1868-1927 | Markievicz, Constance de, 1868-1927 | Markievicz, Casimir / 1874-1932 | Markievicz, Casimir, 1874-1932 | Women revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography | Revolutionaries -- Poland -- Biography | Artists -- Poland -- Biography | Anti-imperialist movements -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Art -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Dublin (Ireland) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 941.7082 | ARRItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
Preface: The Rebel Countess and the Polish Irishman -- Origins -- Bohemia -- The Politics of Art -- Suffrage, Nationalism, and the Daughters of Ireland -- Women's Work? -- Conversion -- Physical Force -- Social Realism -- The Beginning -- The Markieviczes at War -- War and Family Life -- Victory behind Bars -- A Citizen of the Republic -- Counterrevolution -- Reconciliation -- Legacies.
Constance Markievicz, born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Dunin Markievicz, a painter, playwright, and theatre director, was a Polish noble who would eventually join the Russian imperial army to fight on behalf of Polish freedom during World War I. 'Revolutionary Lives' offers the first dual biography of these two prominent European activists and artists. Tracing the Markieviczes' entwined and impassioned trajectories, biographer Lauren Arrington sheds light on the avant-garde cultures of London, Paris, and Dublin, and the rise of anti-imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.