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Katharine Tynan
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Standard Name: Tynan, Katharine
Birth Name: Katharine Tynan
Nickname: Kate
Nickname: K. T.
Nickname: Katie
Married Name: Katharine Hinkson
Married Name: K. T. Hinkson
Married Name: Mrs H. A. Hinkson
The busy writing career of Irish nationalist poet, novelist, and journalist She selected and edited three poetry collections and a massive volume of Irish literature, all of them important in the Irish Literary Revival, which she helped to produce. Her non-fiction covers Irish history, work for children (including a religious text and a book on behaviour), and a collaboratively written book on flowers. As a journalist she turned out articles and sketches on social, political, and gender issues. She kept an unpublished diary, and a journal of the Great War.
spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, driven partly by the need to support her family. Her more than 160 volumes include about a hundred novels (written primarily for women, many of them romance and some gothic), twenty-seven volumes of poetry (some of it inspired by Irish heritage, nationalism, and Catholicism), twenty-three collections of short stories, six volumes of autobiography, three volumes of sketches, a religious play, a book of axioms, and three volumes of biography or memoirs of other people.Timeline
Texts
Tynan, Katharine. A Cluster of Nuts. Lawrence and Bullen, 1894.
Tynan, Katharine. A Lover’s Breast-Knot. Elkin Mathews, 1896.
Tynan, Katharine. A Nun, Her Friends, and Her Order. Kegan Paul, 1891.
Tynan, Katharine. “A Word for Shopgirls”. Times, No. 43698, p. 10.
Tynan, Katharine. An Isle in the Water. A. and C. Black, 1895.
Tynan, Katharine. Ballads and Lyrics. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891.
Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.
Tynan, Katharine, and Dora Sigerson. “Dora Sigerson: A Tribute and Some Memories”. The Sad Years, Constable, 1918, p. vii - xii.
Tynan, Katharine. Evensong. B. Blackwell, 1922.
Tynan, Katharine. Experiences. A. H. Bullen, 1908.
Tynan, Katharine. Flower of Youth. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1915.
Tynan, Katharine. Herb O’ Grace. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1918.
Tynan, Katharine, and Eva Gore-Booth. In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson, 1918-1923. Privately printed by Clement Shorter, 1923.
Tynan, Katharine. Innocencies. A. H. Bullen; Maunsel, 1905.
Tynan, Katharine, editor. Irish Love-Songs. T. F. Unwin, 1892.
Tynan, Katharine. Irish Poems. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1913.
Tynan, Katharine. Julia. Smith, Elder, 1904.
Tynan, Katharine. Late Songs. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1917.
Tynan, Katharine. Lord Edward. John Murray, 1916.
Tynan, Katharine. Louise de la Vallière. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885.
Tynan, Katharine. New Poems. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911.
Tynan, Katharine. “Our Daughters’ Future: Independence or Idleness?”. Times, No. 43003, p. 10.
Tynan, Katharine. “Our Daughters’ Future: The Marriage Problem; Girls as Colonists; A Dowry System Suggested”. Times, No. 43019, p. 19.
Tynan, Katharine et al., editors. Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland. M. H. Gill and Son, 1888.
Tynan, Katharine. “Santa Christina”. The Bookman, Vol.
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