Mary Tighe

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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).
Half-length stipple engraving of Mary Tighe by Edward Scriven, derived originally from a painting by George Romney,published 1812. Tighe is seated, with long, flowing, dark hair, a ribbon round her head, and a simple gown that crosses over at the bust.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Ann, Lady Fanshawe
The recipient was Sarah Tighe , who later became the mother-in-law of the poet Mary Tighe .
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Penguin.
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Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD ) addressed her fellow-poet Mary Tighe (identified by name in a footnote) in a poem of compliment, To Psyche, on Reading her Poem.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre,. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray.
2: 237
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...
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
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...
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, p. xi - xxxiii.
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James Hogg , another contestant, praised the poem.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 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)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Felicia Hemans
The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
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...
Travel Lady Caroline Lamb
As a child she spent time in Ireland, on her father's Kilkenny estates, and at Woodstock in the same county, the final home of Mary Tighe .
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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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...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM next entertained the desire to write a grand opera on the topic of Cupid and Psyche, for music to be composed by Weber . In canvassing other treatments of the subject, she made no...
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...
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...
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.

Timeline

1801: Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his...

Writing climate item

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.