Emily Hickey

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EH was a poet of ideas who wrote during the mid to late nineteenth century, developing in her work both her feminist views about reforming social attitudes, and, later, her religious faith as she became an apologist for Catholicism. She published three collections of poetry and close to ten religious books, and also edited and translated numerous works.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Milestones

12 April 1845

EH was born at the Norman Macmine Castle in County Wexford, Ireland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland.
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1866

After an initial rejection, EH 's poem Told in the Firelight was accepted and published in Cornhill Magazine; she received ten pounds in remuneration.
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals does not list this poem among the other contributions in 1866, but scholar William S. Peterson agrees with Enid Maud Dinnis that it did indeed appear at this date in this periodical.
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press.
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Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More.
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1920

EH 's article On the Makings of English Blank Verse, was printed in the Nineteenth Century.
Hickey, Emily. “On the Makings of English Blank Verse”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
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, Constable, pp. 1002-19.
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9 September 1924

EH died in a London hospital at nearly eighty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Biography

Birth and Family

12 April 1845

EH was born at the Norman Macmine Castle in County Wexford, Ireland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland.
215

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