Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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).
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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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
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
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.
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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
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...
Textual Features
Anne Plumptre
She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity,
Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn.
v-vi
and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...
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.
xvi
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.
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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)...
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...
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.
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.
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...