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 She kept an unpublished diary, and a journal of the Great War.

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Publishing Violet Hunt
Here VH caught the attention of other journal editors, and she was soon writing a weekly column, Wares of Autolycus, for the Pall Mall Gazette (a column later taken on by Alice Meynell and...
Publishing Fanny Aikin Kortright
Towards the end of her memoirs FAK notes that she wrote from the age of seventeen but did not earn until I was twenty-six.
Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons.
Her earliest publications were poems for the Guernsey Star (when she...
Reception Dora Sigerson
Katharine Tynan and Eva Gore-Booth compiled a collection of poems by other people entitled In Memoriam: Dora Sigerson , 1918-1923, of which DS 's husband, Clement Shorter , privately printed twenty-five copies.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Reception Martin Ross
The Corinthian Dinner Committee of Dublin honoured Irish women writers including Edith Somerville , Martin Ross , Lady Gregory , Eva Gore-Booth , Emily Lawless , Susan Mitchell , and Katharine Tynan .
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Textual Features Dora Sigerson
Probably influenced by her friend and contemporary Katharine Tynan , DS 's poems feature a shared traditional Irish symbolism and imagery. (Tynan was publishing two years before Sigerson.) Such techniques include the embodiment of Ireland...
Textual Features Dora Sigerson
In response to the distress and despair of women, especially mothers, on the home front early in World War One, DS prays: Comfort the women, Lord, my neutral prayer / May reach Thy pity where...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW 's leadership and personal aesthetics steered the periodical towards the arts, while still keeping intact established columns on domestic topics, such as gardening, needlework, cookery and fashion.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Female Aesthete at the Helm: Sylvia’s Journal and ’Graham R. Tomson’, 1893-1894”. Victorian Periodical Review, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 173-92.
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Pages teemed with poetry and fiction...
Textual Features Lady Margaret Sackville
Textual Production Maud Gonne
This was was the first women's paper published in Ireland. Among its contributors were Constance Markievicz , Katharine Tynan , MG , and Molony.Gonne contributed several articles, though she frequently did so anonymously. She was...
Textual Production Dora Sigerson
DS 's close friend and fellow poet Katharine Tynan introduced the volume with a tribute to Sigerson—although these poems represent a marked divergence in sentiment between the two poets on the subject of the war...
Textual Production Oscar Wilde
Wilde shifted the magazine's focus from fashion and transformed it into an organ for women's opinions and feelings on the subjects of modern life, art, and literature, as well as style. He was also dedicated...
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain , Edith Sitwell , Nancy Cunard , Cicely Hamilton , Rose Macaulay ,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
Travel Viola Meynell
They were joined later by poet and novelist Katharine Tynan and her daughter Pamela .
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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