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…
“I am not especially proud of this facility of mine. It has produced a good deal of honest work, with of course, a good deal of necessary pot-boiling, and it has made some few people happy besides myself.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
Genevieve Taggard was born on November 28, 1894, in the small farming community of Waitsburg, Washington, a place of dust-choked fields and modest wooden houses that would later stand in stark contrast to the lush paradise of her childhood memories. She died on November 8, 1948, in a New York City hospital, just shy of her fifty-fourth birthday, her body worn down by chronic hypertension that had increasingly confine…
“It is better to work hard than to be married hard.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair