Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Tighe
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Standard Name: Tighe, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Blachford
Married Name: Mary Tighe
Pseudonym: Psyche
Among the oeuvre of MT
, Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, her long narrative allegory, Psyche, gives her a high place among the women Romantics. Her known oeuvre has excitingly expanded in recent years. She also kept a diary (now lost) and drafted a novel (unfinished).
Spenser's early women readers who were also poets seem to have included An Collins
and Alicia D'Anvers
. Later women writers in English either found him useful for raising the status of the romance genre...
Friends, Associates
Anna Seward
AS
became a close friend of Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
, the Ladies of Llangollen, whom she called the Rosalind and Celia of real life.
qtd. in
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
96-7
For years they regularly exchanged gifts...
Friends, Associates
Lady Eleanor Butler
Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old...
Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
(who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe
, and Mary Tighe
(with whom she...
Friends, Associates
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson formed a lasting friendship with the poet Mary Tighe
. In connection with the publishing of her second novel, she met the London publisher Richard Phillips
and others in his circle, including William Godwin
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Strutt
ES
balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments,
Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
Fitz-Edward, set in Wales, has poems interspersed, besides the lines of verse heading its chapters, which include the work of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Mary Robinson
, Mary Tighe
, and EP
herself, cited as Emma De Lisle.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
introduces each canto with Spenserian stanzas, suggesting that she may already have read Mary Tighe
's Psyche. Her poem takes as its starting point a discovery reported in England in February 1810: of...
Leisure and Society
Elizabeth Jenkins
In wartime lunch hours EJ
used to browse in the bookshops of Tottenham Court Road: among items for sale she noticed Susan Ferrier
's The Inheritance, 1824, and one of the fifty privately-printed...
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Its appearance in Blackwood's was accompanied by critic John Wilson
's assertion, Scotland has her Baillie
—Ireland her Tighe
—England her Hemans.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
xvi
James Hogg
, another contestant, praised the poem.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
xvi
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)...
Textual Features
Anne Plumptre
She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity,
Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn, 1817.
v-vi
and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...
Textual Features
Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Production
Ann Lady Fanshawe
The recipient was Sarah Tighe
, who later became the mother-in-law of the poet Mary Tighe
.
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin, 1973.
62
Timeline
1801: Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his...
Writing climate item
1801
Thomas Moore
pseudonymously published his mildly erotic Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96
Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, 2015.
and notes 10-13
Texts
Tighe, Mary. Collected Poems and Journals. Editor Linkin, Harriet Kramer, University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin.
Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, p. vii - xxi.
Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
