KT
's father, Andrew Cullen Tynan
, came from a long line of Irish farmers from Cheeverstown in Dublin and from County Wicklow. He was born from a mixed marriage: his mother was Catholic...
Material Conditions of Writing
Katharine Tynan
KT
's father
felt that as a successful, published author, she needed a bigger and more pleasant space in which to write.
He set about rebuilding her writing room, and it was in this...
Publishing
Katharine Tynan
KT
published her first book, Louise de la Vallière and Other Poems. Her father
paid the publisher, Kegan, Paul & Co.
, £20 to have the volume published.
This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell
's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father
...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
Published three years after the death of KT
's beloved father
, this volume contains a number of poems remembering him. These are intensely personal, presenting her emotions in the raw.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.