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Gonne, Maud & John Quinn. Too Long a Sacrifice: The Letters of Maud Gonne and John Quinn. Susquehanna Univ., dist. by Associated Univ. Prs. 1999. c.320p, permanent paper. ed. by Janis & Richard Londraville. illus. index. LC 98-27786. ISBN 1-57591-024-1. $45. BIOG
This collection of letters between Maud Gonne (1866-1953), Irish political activist and long-standing beloved of W.B. Yeats, and John Quinn (1870-1924), Irish American lawyer and patron of the arts, spans the years 1906-21. The two met through Irish writers whose works Quinn was acquiring; Quinn admired Gonne's activism. Their friendship was cemented when Quinn helped Gonne end her marriage to John MacBride. …