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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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
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, 1973.
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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.
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
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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...

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