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 KT 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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Napier, Taura S., and Louise S. Napier. Seeking a Country: Literary Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Irishwomen. University Press of America.
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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 She kept an unpublished diary, and a journal of the Great War.

Connections

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Friends, Associates Dora Sigerson
DS met Irish-nationalist poet and novelist Katharine Tynan , with whom she shared a lifelong friendship.
Tynan, Katharine, and Dora Sigerson. “Dora Sigerson: A Tribute and Some Memories”. The Sad Years, Constable, p. vii - xii.
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Friends, Associates Hannah Lynch
Through her involvement with the Ladies' Land League , HL became acquainted with the League's leading force: Irish nationalist and artist Anna Parnell , to whom she dedicated her novel The Prince of the Glades...
Health Dora Sigerson
When DS fell seriously ill she did so extremely suddenly. Her close friend Katharine Tynan , remembering later how rapid was the onset of her illness, recorded that Sigerson had attributed it herself to her...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Grace O'Brien
Among the essays, The Feminine Animal starts from Darwin 's law of evolution, which O'Brien takes to be in some sense proved.
O’Brien, Charlotte Grace. Charlotte Grace O’Brien. Editor Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, Maunsel.
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She scans the findings of science for their non-literal interpretation, and finds...
Literary responses Mona Caird
The Daily Telegraph responded with an article headed Is Marriage a Failure?, which brought in about 27,000 letters in response and a parallel surge of letters in the USA in Cosmopolitan (showing, says Heilmann...
Literary responses Eva Gore-Booth
This poem drew several tributes from friends. Æ (George Russell ) wrote: I am delighted with your poem. You have slipped into it at last—the Celtic manner . . . . It ought to...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW was clearly succeeding in the literary world, fashioning for herself a distinct poetic persona. Linda Hughes finds evidence of this in Katharine Tynan 's essay A Literary Causerie, which appeared in The Speaker...
Literary responses Catherine Maria Grey
Age and Argus called The Gambler's Wife a tale of touching, pathetic interest, written with much grace and deep devotional feeling where so deep is the melancholy, and so trying are the incidents of her...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
As Rebecca W. Crump 's guide to publications on CR to 1973 reveals, her high reputation persisted after her death—she stood, according to Katharine Tynan ' article Santa Christina in 1912, head and shoulders above...
Literary responses Hannah Lynch
Katharine Tynan wrote that Lynch's novels appealed to the discriminating.
Binckes, Faith, and Kathryn Laing. “A Forgotten Franco-Irish Literary Network: Hannah Lynch, Arvède Barine and Salon Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”. Études irlandaises, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 157-71.
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Occupation Constance Smedley
Since the Langham Place Group had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club came on the scene at a time...
politics Constance, Countess Markievicz
The journal, which was the first women's newspaper in Ireland, issued its first number this November, though CCM did not begin to publish articles in it until March 1909. Other contributors included Katharine Tynan ,...
politics Dora Sigerson
DS accompanied Katharine Tynan to a mass meeting for the National Land League at the Rotunda in Dublin, where Charles Parnell spoke, just as his naming in the O'Shea divorce case was fatally dividing...
politics Dora Sigerson
Like her friend Katharine Tynan , DS was a Parnellite: that is, they continued to support the Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell even after he was found guilty of adultery in the O'Shea Divorce Case...
Author summary Eva Gore-Booth
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan , Æ (...

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Texts

Tynan, Katharine, and Frances Maitland. The Book of Flowers. Smith, Elder, 1909.
Tynan, Katharine et al., editors. The Cabinet of Irish Literature. Gresham, 1903.
Tynan, Katharine. The Dear Irish Girl. Smith, Elder, 1899.
Tynan, Katharine. The Holy War. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916.
Tynan, Katharine. The House on the Bogs. Ward, Lock, 1922.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
Sigerson, Dora, and Katharine Tynan. The Sad Years. Constable, 1918.
Tynan, Katharine. “The Tyrannies of Ireland: Youth and the Revolver, Growing Peace Hunger”. Times, No. 43032, p. 17.
Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable, 1922.
Tynan, Katharine. The Way of a Maid. Lawrence and Bullen, 1895.
Watts, C. M. The Wild Harp. Editor Tynan, Katharine, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1913.
Tynan, Katharine. The Wind in the Trees. Grant Richards, 1898.
Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable, 1919.
Tynan, Katharine. “To the Editor of the Times”. Times, No. 38166, p. 2.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty One Poems. Editor Yeats, W. B., Dun Emer Press, 1907.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913.
Tynan, Katharine. Twilight Songs. Blackwell, 1927.
Tynan, Katharine. Wives. Hurst and Blackett, 1924.