Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Katharine Tynan
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Standard Name: Tynan, Katharine
Birth Name: Katharine Tynan
Nickname: Kate
Nickname: K. T.
Nickname: Katie
Married Name: Katharine Hinkson
Married Name: K. T. Hinkson
Married Name: Mrs H. A. Hinkson
The busy writing career of Irish nationalist poet, novelist, and journalist KT
spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, driven partly by the need to support her family. Her more than 160 volumes include about a hundred novels (written primarily for women, many of them romance and some gothic), twenty-seven volumes of poetry (some of it inspired by Irish heritage, nationalism, and Catholicism), twenty-three collections of short stories, six volumes of autobiography, three volumes of sketches, a religious play, a book of axioms, and three volumes of biography or memoirs of other people.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Napier, Taura S., and Louise S. Napier. Seeking a Country: Literary Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Irishwomen. University Press of America.
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She selected and edited three poetry collections and a massive volume of Irish literature, all of them important in the Irish Literary Revival, which she helped to produce. Her non-fiction covers Irish history, work for children (including a religious text and a book on behaviour), and a collaboratively written book on flowers. As a journalist she turned out articles and sketches on social, political, and gender issues. She kept an unpublished diary, and a journal of the Great War.
In the 1880s CR
became acquainted with her admirer Katharine Tynan
, whose verse she in turn liked for its piety. Lisa Wilson
, an admirer of CR
who herself wrote and painted, approached the...
Friends, Associates
Naomi Royde-Smith
Another close friend of NRS
, J. D. Beresford
, a highly-regarded novelist, was also an important friend to Dorothy Richardson
, and a mentor and support to Macaulay as well as Royde-Smith, and such...
Friends, Associates
Dora Sigerson
DS
met Irish-nationalist poet and novelist Katharine Tynan
, with whom she shared a lifelong friendship.
Tynan, Katharine, and Dora Sigerson. “Dora Sigerson: A Tribute and Some Memories”. The Sad Years, Constable, p. vii - xii.
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Friends, Associates
Hannah Lynch
Through her involvement with the Ladies' Land League
, HL
became acquainted with the League's leading force: Irish nationalist and artist Anna Parnell
, to whom she dedicated her novel The Prince of the Glades...
Friends, Associates
Alice Meynell
Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he...
Fictionalization
Amy Levy
Quite apart from the biographical errors perpetrated by James Warwick Price
, other myths about her were woven from her Jewishness and her suicide. Her friend Clementina Black
(perhaps feeling that her reputation needed rescue)...
Fictionalization
Alice Meynell
To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson
Family and Intimate relationships
Dora Sigerson
George Sigerson
, DS
's father, was a doctor specialising in nervous disorders (a new area of research), a poet, and a Gaelic scholar. He lectured on biology at the National University of Ireland
...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dora Sigerson
DS
's sister, later Hester Sigerson Piatt
, married the Gaelic poet and playwright Donn Piatt
in about 1900, having been introduced to him by family friend Katharine Tynan
. It seems that the couple...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia's uncle George Wyndham
was a Conservative politician (named Secretary of State for Ireland in 1900), an author, and a personal friend of the writer Katharine Tynan
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Mona Caird
His father, Sir James Caird
(an agricultural economist and large landowner in south-west Scotland, knighted in 1882), had at some date (probably connected with inheritance) linked his own surname with that of his wife, born...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Meynell
She bore eight children, of whom one died in infancy. As the family grew, financial worries forced her to work unceasingly. Katharine Tynan
was godmother to Olivia
, born in 1890, and Francis Thompson
was...
Cultural formation
Hannah Lynch
HL
grew up as an urban middle-class Irishwoman with some Scottish heritage and amid nationalist influence, in a cultivated literary and political household which was also a predominantly female environment. It is described in Twenty-Five...
Anthologization
James Joyce
Yeats felt that Katharine Tynan
's inclusion of three poems by Joyce in her Irish anthology The Wild Harp in 1913 gave a material boost to his career.
Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., pp. 323-36.