Father Matthew Russell
, founder and editor of the Irish Monthly, played a prominent role in KT
's development as a professional writer (as he did too with her contemporary Dora Sigerson
).
KT
later believed that as a keen reader in her youth, if I had lived among writing-people I too should have written in those years. It did not occur to me to write, although I...
Material Conditions of Writing
Dora Sigerson
Father Matthew Russell
, editor of the Irish Monthly (where most of the poems had first appeared), covered the publishing expenses for DS
's first poetry volume, Verses.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features
Katharine Tynan
They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all...
