Louise Imogen Guiney — a remark

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“No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.”

On the persistent gap between what we desire and what experience delivers · Essay, Goose-Quill Papers, 1885

About Louise Imogen Guiney

Louise Imogen Guiney

7 January 1861–2 November 1920

In the twilight of the nineteenth century, when American literature was finding its distinctive voice and women writers were carving out spaces in a predominantly male literary landscape, Louise Imogen Guiney emerged as a singular figure whose work defied easy categorization. Born into an era of transition and living…

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