Enid M. Dinnis

EH 's mother was, suggests biographer Enid Dinnis , a proud woman [who] needed understanding to be loved. She was related to a Stewart family of County Carlow, and it is claimed that she...

EH never married. Citing several of her poems which recount the trials and tribulations of futile love affairs, biographer Enid Dinnis speculates that she may herself have suffered from unhappy love.

EH 's biographer, Enid Dinnis , however, points out that other reviewers criticized frankly and found fault freely.

According to her biographer , despite her indefatigable labours, the general public gave less and less attention to her name when it chanced to appear before it.

In old age EH was awarded a Civil List pension. Despite this, Dinnis notes that to the literary world she looked in vain for what had been hers in days gone by. Nor...

After an initial rejection, EH 's poem Told in the Firelight was accepted and published in Cornhill Magazine; she received ten pounds in remuneration.