Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Who is Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931) was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora O'Mahony (née Tynan, 1866–1954) was also a poet and one of her three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer. The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.BiographyTynan was born into a small farming family in County Dublin and educated at the Dominican St. Catherine's, a convent school in Drogheda. Her poetry was first published in 1875. She met and became friendly with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1886....
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- Platospupil: very good in the grass to lie
and see the network 'gainst the sky,
a living lace of blue and green,
and boughs that let the gold between.
–katharine tynan hinkson (1861–1931)
- Mbharrington501: very good in the grass to lie
and see the network 'gainst the sky,
a living lace of blue and green,
and boughs that let the gold between.
–katharine tynan hinkson (1861–1931)
- Reescb: sheep and lambs
katharine tynan hinkson
up in the blue, blue mountains
dewy pastures are sweet:
rest for the little bodies,
rest for the little feet.
- Thepainterflynn: today in 1900 pamela hinkson, daughter of katharine tynan is born in london, she's best known for her novel "the ladies road" which sold over 100,000 copies in the penguin edition
- Habbymomma: very good in the grass to lie
and see the network 'gainst the sky,
a living lace of blue and green,
and boughs that let the gold between.
–katharine tynan hinkson (1861–1931)
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