The Winding Stair and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats

Author:William Butler Yeats
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

I. CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP

First published in The London Mercury, November 1930, and The New Republic, 12 November 1930.

Yeats wrote to Olivia Shakespear in November 1931 that he based Crazy Jane on an old woman called Cracked Mary “who lives in a cottage near Gort—She has just sent Lady Gregory some flowers in spite of the season and [has] an amazing power of audacious speech. One of her great performances is a description of how the meanness of a Gort shopkeeper’s wife over the price of a glass of porter made her so despair of the human race that she got drunk” (L 785–86).

9: Yeats first used “Jack the Journeyman” as a name in a song from his play The Pot of Broth, 1903, and in a note also attributed it to Cracked Mary.

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