Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Emily Hickey
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Standard Name: Hickey, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Henrietta Hickey
EH
was a poet of ideas who wrote during the mid to late nineteenth century, developing in her work both her feminist views about reforming social attitudes, and, later, her religious faith as she became an apologist for Catholicism. She published three collections of poetry and close to ten religious books, and also edited and translated numerous works.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
"Emily Hickey, cover of Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature, 1910." 2020-03-19.Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/ourcatholicherit0000hick/mode/2up?ref=ol.
HHK
enjoyed lifelong friendships with the poets Emily Hickey
and Emily Pfeiffer
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
under Emily Hickey
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
American poet Emily Dickinson
loved EBB
's poetry. The language of Aurora Leigh crops up throughout her oeuvre, and she recalls the transformative experience, sanctifying the soul, of her early reading in one poem: I...
Literary responses
Harriet Hamilton King
HHK
's friend Emily Hickey
(herself a poet) wrote that the poem has beauty; but it is, I think, injured by the fault one might expect to find in young work—want of condensation.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
Hickey
noted of these poems that we have the delight in beauty, in beauty for its own sake; the revelling in the wonder of flowers, which Mrs. King can write of as very few can...
Literary responses
Harriet Hamilton King
The reviewer for the Academy compared the Ballad of the Midnight Sun to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's Christabel and spoke highly of many of the other poems.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 201
Hickey
notes that in Dives and...
Reception
Robert Browning
The Robert Browning Society
was founded in 1881 by Frederick James Furnivall
, who enlisted Emily Hickey
in the undertaking. Browning was still not a profitable poet, making at this date only about £100 a...
Textual Features
Harriet Hamilton King
The work is written largely in blank verse, with rhyme used for emphasis in particular sections. Emily Hickey
suggests that HHK
left it open to question whether The Disciples, as a whole, is a...