MT
's mother, Lady Theodosia (Tighe) Blachford
, was an early Irish Methodist. Through her mother's grandfather, the Earl of Darnley, she descended from the first Earl of Clarendon
.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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She had published a...
Textual Features
Mary Tighe
MT
's prose preface acknowledges her debt, early in the poem, to Apuleius
' version of the Psyche story. She says she chose the Spenserian stanza because she loved Spenser
; she found it difficult...