Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913.
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Cultural formation | Dora Sigerson | |
Education | Emilie Barrington | Her school attendance took place abroad. For a year, 1855-1856, she and her sister Zoe both attended a school in Cologne, and in 1858 she joined a Paris finishing school, where her fellow-pupils included... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Caroline Wood | ECW
's youngest daughter, Katherine, later known as Kitty O'Shea
, became mistress and then wife of Charles Parnell
. Her divorce case from William Henry O'Shea
famously cost Parnell his position as chairman of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | KT
's father, Andrew Cullen Tynan
, came from a long line of Irish farmers from Cheeverstown in Dublin and from County Wicklow. He was born from a mixed marriage: his mother was Catholic... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Paul Madden
, KCT
's father, was director and chairman of the Ulster and Leinster Bank
as well as an Alderman of the City of Cork. An associate of politician Charles Stewart Parnell
(and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | His relatives included John Page Wood
, husband of novelist Emma Caroline Wood
. This pair were the parents of Anna Steele
(another novelist), Katharine O'Shea
(mistress and later the wife of Charles Stuart Parnell |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Steele | AS
's youngest sister, by marriage Katherine or Katharine O'Shea
, became notorious because of her involvement with Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell
. The sisters were said to have shared a disregard for conventions... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | In LondonKT
met the politician William Gladstone
(a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 328-9 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | During her period at Newbridge after her return from school, FPC
became good friends with her nearest neighbour, Sophia Parnell
, great-aunt of Charles Stewart Parnell
. Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols. 1: 169 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Steele | Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | The Deliverer uses the Biblical story of the rejection of Moses
by the ancient Israelites as an analogue for Parnell
's rejection by the Irish. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985. 217 |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | KT
found that her staunch support for Parnell
after the divorce case was now punished with some damaging criticism of this biography. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 382 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916. 66 |
Material Conditions of Writing | May Laffan | She was furious at being identified, as she intensely disliked publicity. In an angry letter to George Grove
, editor of the magazine, she wrote: I thought I had clearly made it understood to the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Taylor | HT
made a fighting speech (following the government's suppression of the Irish Land League
and imprisonment of Charles Stewart Parnell
) on the iniquities which were now disgracing England in Ireland (which, she pointed out... |
Occupation | Katharine Tynan | One of her activities as a member of the League was to visit Irish political prisoners at Kilmainham Jail (now in Dublin). She went to see Irish nationalist Charles Parnell
on one such visit... |
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