EH
's mother was, suggests biographer Enid Dinnis
, a proud woman [who] needed understanding to be loved.
Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927.
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She was related to a Stewart family of County Carlow, and it is claimed that she...
Family and Intimate relationships
Emily Hickey
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 168
Literary responses
Emily Hickey
EH
's biographer, Enid Dinnis
, however, points out that other reviewers criticized frankly and found fault freely.
Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927.
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Reception
Emily Hickey
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.
Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927.