Lily and Lolly
Sarah Rigby, 18 July 1996
The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats
by Joan Hardwick.
Pandora, 263 pp., £8.99, January 1996,0 04 440924 9 Show More
by Joan Hardwick.
Pandora, 263 pp., £8.99, January 1996,
“... possession of them and then they lose their appetites and get ill.’ Only the ‘robust, hardy’ Robert, older than Jack, and two years younger than Lolly, is never attacked. ‘Bobby has sensibility,’ his father wrote, ‘will love ideas and have enthusiasms, ardours, and will go through more emotional experiences in a month than another in ten ... ”