9.50 by 6.75in. (24.1 by 17.1cm)

Title: LOLLY READING
Note: Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, known in her family as "Lolly", was the daughter of John Butler Yeats and Susan Yeats (née Pollexfen). She was sister to W. B., Jack and Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats.She enrolled, with her sister Susan, in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1883 and took classes at the Royal Dublin Society. The family moved to Eardley Crescent, South Kensington, London, in 1886. While there Yeats started to write fiction and published a home-made magazine, The Pleiades, as wekll as contributing to other publications.She trained and worked as an art teacher and was a member of William Morris's circle in London before her family returned to Dublin in 1900.She published four popular painting manuals: Brushwork (1896), Brushwork studies of flowers, fruits and animals (1898), Brushwork copy book (1899), and Elementary brushwork studies (1900) .She trained and worked as an art teacher and was a member of William Morris's circle in London before her family returned to Dublin in 1900. In Dublin, she accepted the invitation to join Evelyn Gleeson to form the Dun Emer Guild along with her sister Lily, who was an embroiderer. Yeats managed the Dun Emer Press from 1902 This was set up with the intention of training young women in bookbinding and printing as well as embroidery and weaving.After many years of strained relations between the Yeats sisters and Evelyn Gleeson, their business relationship was finally ended.Subsequently, in 1908, Lolly and her brother William started the Cuala Press, publishing over 70 books including 48 by the poet. as well as broadsides for her other brother, Jack. She worked with Cuala Press until her death in 1940

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