![]() In 1891 she briefly joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical organisation with which Yeats had involved himself. Gonne was attracted to the occultist and spiritualist worlds deeply important to Yeats, asking his friends about the reality of reincarnation. She returned to Ireland and worked for the release of Irish political prisoners from jail. Stead, who wrote of meeting in St Petersburg "one of the most beautiful women of the world" ( Review of Reviews, 7 June 1892). She travelled early in 1888 on a clandestine Boulangist mission to Russia, where she met the notable Pall Mall Gazette editor W. She was a very wealthy woman and was free to live as she pleased. In December 1887 Maud Gonne inherited trust funds in excess of £13,000 and an unentailed sum from her mother's estate. Her mission was Ireland, and together they would constitute an alliance against the British Empire. With Boulanger he would redeem France by regaining Alsace-Lorraine. Her relationship with Millevoye, who was sixteen years her senior, was both sexually and politically driven. In France, Gonne met Lucien Millevoye (1850–1918), a married journalist with fervid right-wing politics, a supporter of the revanchist General Boulanger. Unaware that she would inherit a fortune on her majority, she tried to become an actress, but became ill with the tuberculosis that stayed with her throughout her life in the summer of 1887 she went to the French spa town of Royat in the Auvergne to recover. With her sister Kathleen, Gonne spent an unhappy time in London under the guardianship of their uncle William Gonne. ![]() ![]() She accompanied him and remained with him until his death in 1886. In 1882, her father, an army officer, was posted to Dublin. My father spoke 6 languages but had little taste for business, so he got a commission in the English army his gift for languages secured for him diplomatic appointments in Austria, the Balkans and Russia, and he was as much at home in Paris as in Dublin." Early career Dublin, London and Paris "My grandfather was head of a prosperous firm with houses in London and Oporto – he destined my father to take charge of the foreign business and had him educated abroad. "The Gonnes came from County Mayo, but my great-great grandfather was disinherited and sought fortune abroad trading in Spanish wine," she wrote. After her mother died while Maud was still a child, her father sent her to a boarding school in France to be educated. She was born in England at Tongham near Aldershot, Hampshire, as Edith Maud Gonne, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gonne (1835–1886) of the 17th Lancers, and his wife, Edith Frith Gonne, born Cook (1844–1871). Gonne was well known for being the muse and long-time love interest of Irish poet W. During the 1930s, as a founding member of the Social Credit Party, she promoted the distributive programme of C. She actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of people evicted in the Land Wars. Maud Gonne MacBride ( Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress.
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