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.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
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…
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
