The title character of a play by this author has her fortune stolen by two devils disguised as merchants, but ultimately ascends to Heaven upon her death. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Irish author who also wrote the poems The Second Coming and The Wild Swans at Coole.
ANSWER: W. B. Yeats [William Butler Yeats]
[10h] Lady Gregory raised money for the theater that premiered this play by Yeats. The title noblewoman of this play sells her soul to feed the starving tenants on her land in Ireland.
ANSWER: The Countess Cathleen
[10m] This Anglo-Irish novelist depicted the decline of a landowning family that mismanages their estate in Ireland, told through the eyes of the steward Thady Quirk, in the novel Castle Rackrent.
ANSWER: Maria Edgeworth
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