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 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 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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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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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
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, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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