In the grand tapestry of Victorian literature, where convention often stifled authentic expression, Mary Montgomerie, Lady Currie (née Lamb, 24 February 1843 – 13 October 1905), known by the literary pseudonym Violet Fane, was an English poet, writer, and later an ambassadress who dared to weave threads of passion, heartbreak, and feminine desire into her verse. Her life, spanning over six decades of the nineteenth c…
Compare Poets
Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
Poet A
Violet Fane
Poet B
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Compare two related contemporaries
A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 72%
Poems 83%
Blended 77%
Swap sides
Another related pair
Katharine Tynan Hinkson, born Katharine Tynan on 23 January 1861 and dead on 2 April 1931, was one of the most industrious and visible Irish writers of her generation. Poet, novelist, reviewer, memoirist, editor, children’s writer, and biographer, she published with a speed and abundance that can make her career seem almost bewildering to a modern reader. Her name is most often associated with the first phase of the…
“There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what otherwise would be an impertinence, delightful.”
In time
Violet Fane
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
1843
1931
They overlapped for 45 years (1861–1905).
When Katharine Tynan Hinkson was born, Violet Fane was about 18.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson was about 44 when Violet Fane died.
On the map
About 488 km separate Littlehampton, Sussex, England from Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Themes they return to
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.
From the biographies
women
Violet Fane: beauport, littlehampton, victorian literature, from dawn to noon, betwixt two seas, autumn songs, benjamin disraeli, vivian grey. Katharine Tynan Hinkson: county dublin, whitehall, catholic farming family, w. b. yeats, christina rossetti, irish literary revival, shamrocks and ballads, the handsome brandons.
Poems that secretly rhyme
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
The world around them
While their lives overlapped
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
1863
Battle of Gettysburg
1863
Gettysburg Address
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
1912
Return to Ireland
Emotional landscapes
Violet Fane: Sorrow, Longing, Despair. Katharine Tynan Hinkson: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality.