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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Tighe
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.