Mary Tighe

09 October 1772 - 24 March 1810

Standard Name: Tighe, Mary

Birth Name: Mary Blachford

Married Name: Mary Tighe

Pseudonym: Psyche

Among the oeuvre of MT , Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, her long narrative allegory, Psyche, gives her a high place among the women Romantics. Her known oeuvre has excitingly expanded in recent years. She also kept a diary (now lost) and drafted a novel (unfinished).

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
death	Edmund Spenser	Spenser's early women readers who were also poets seem to have included An Collins and Alicia D'Anvers . Later women writers in English either found him useful for raising the status of the romance genre...
Friends, Associates	Thomas Moore	His social circle included prominent literary women: Mary Tighe , sisters Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) and Olivia Clarke , Mary Shelley , Marguerite Blessington , Louisa Stuart Costello , and Caroline Norton . He knew...
Friends, Associates	Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan	Sydney Owenson formed a lasting friendship with the poet Mary Tighe . In connection with the publishing of her second novel, she met the London publisher Richard Phillips and others in his circle, including William Godwin
Friends, Associates	Anna Seward	AS became a close friend of Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby , the Ladies of Llangollen, whom she called the Rosalind and Celia of real life. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997. 96-7 For years they regularly exchanged gifts...
Friends, Associates	Lady Eleanor Butler	Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
Friends, Associates	Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre	Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie and Mary Russell Mitford (who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe , and Mary Tighe (with whom she...
Intertextuality and Influence	Emma Parker	Fitz-Edward, set in Wales, has poems interspersed, besides the lines of verse heading its chapters, which include the work of Anna Letitia Barbauld , Mary Robinson , Mary Tighe , and EP herself, cited as Emma De Lisle. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Strutt	ES balances her story of love and adventure with the depiction of everyday life in a Scottish castle, including food, clothing, pastimes, heraldry, and chivalric tournaments, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 . in the reign of Edward III . Her preface...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM introduces each canto with Spenserian stanzas, suggesting that she may already have read Mary Tighe 's Psyche. Her poem takes as its starting point a discovery reported in England in February 1810: of...
Leisure and Society	Elizabeth Jenkins	In wartime lunch hours EJ used to browse in the bookshops of Tottenham Court Road: among items for sale she noticed Susan Ferrier 's The Inheritance, 1824, and one of the fifty privately-printed...
Literary responses	Felicia Hemans	Its appearance in Blackwood's was accompanied by critic John Wilson 's assertion, Scotland has her Baillie —Ireland her Tighe —England her Hemans. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi James Hogg , another contestant, praised the poem. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi
Literary responses	Felicia Hemans	Appreciation of FH was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott and Byron , in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray , her own publisher)...
Textual Features	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Features	Anne Plumptre	She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn, 1817. v-vi and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...
Textual Production	Eva Mary Bell	Some of her correspondence and a diary running from January to December 1936 survive in the archive of Hamilton of Hamwood in the National Library of Ireland . This archive includes papers of Mary Tighe

Timeline

1801

Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his mildly erotic Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq.

Texts

Tighe, Mary. Collected Poems and Journals. Editor Linkin, Harriet Kramer, University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin.

Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, p. vii - xxi.

Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.

Tighe, Mary. Mary. Editor Tighe, William, 1811.

Tighe, Mary. Psyche. J. Carpenter, 1805.

Tighe, Mary. Psyche. Editor Tighe, William, Longman, 1811.

Tighe, Mary. Psyche. Woodstock Books, 1992.

Tighe, Mary. The Works of Mary Tighe, Published and Unpublished. Editor Henchy, Patrick, No. 6, Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1957.

Tighe, Mary. Verses Transcribed for H. T. Editor Linkin, Harriet Kramer. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/tighe_verses, http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/tighe_verses.