Biography of Louise Imogen Guiney
Louise Imogen Guiney (January 7, 1861 – November 2, 1920) was an American poet, essayist and editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.Biography
The daughter of Gen. Patrick R. Guiney, an Irish-born American Civil War officer and lawyer, and Jeannette Margaret Doyle, she was raised as a Christian and educated at the Notre Dame convent school in Boston and at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Providence, Rhode Island, from which she graduated in 1879.
Over the next 20 years, she worked at various jobs, including serving as a postmistress and working in the field of cataloging at the Boston Public Library. She was a member of several literary and social clubs, and according to her friend Ralph Adams Cram was "the most vital and creative personal influence" on their circle of writers and artists in Boston (see Visionists).
In 1901, Guiney moved to Oxford, England, to focus on her poetry and essay writing. She gave a crucifix sculpture to the church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore, to mark the centenary of Cardinal Newman's birth in 1901.She soon began to suffer from illness and was no longer able to write poetry. She was a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, McClure's, Blackwood's Magazine, Dublin Review, The Catholic World, and the Catholic Encyclopedia.With Gwenllian Morgan, Guiney prepared materials for an edition and biography of the seventeenth-century Welsh poet Henry Vaughan. Neither Guiney nor Morgan lived to complete the project, however, and their research was used by F. E. Hutchinson for his 1947 biography Henry Vaughan.Guiney died of a stroke near Gloucestershire, England, at age 59, leaving much of her work unfinished.
Bibliography
Songs at the Start (1884, poetry)
Goose-Quill Papers (1885, essays)
The White Sail and Other Poems (1887, poetry)
Brownies and Bogles (1888, poetry)
Monsieur Henri: A Foot-Note to French History (1892, essays)
A Roadside Harp (1893, poetry)
A Little English Gallery (1895, essays)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1895, biography, with Alice Brown)
Lovers' Saint Ruth's and Three Other Tales (1895, short stories)
Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford (1895, poetry)
Patrins (1897, essays)
James Clarence Mangan, his Selected Poems: With a Study by the Editor (1897, editor)
England and Yesterday (1898, poetry)
The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems (1899, poetry)
Robert Emmet (1904)
The Princess of the Tower (1906, poetry)
Blessed Edmund Campion (1908)
Happy Ending (1909, poetry, her collected verse)
Letters (1926, letters) (posthumously)
Recusant Poets (1939, ed., with Geoffrey Bliss) (posthumously)
References
Sources
Fairbanks, Henry G., Louise Imogen Guiney, New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1975. ISBN 978-0805703429.
Reichardt, Mary R. (ed.), Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook, Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. ISBN 978-0313311475.
Tenison, E.M., Louise Imogen Guiney,: Her Life And Works, 1861-1920, London: Macmillan, London, 1923. ASIN: B000859GVG 1923.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
External links
Works by Louise Imogen Guiney at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Louise Imogen Guiney at Internet Archive
Works by Louise Imogen Guiney at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Essays by Louise Imogen Guiney at Quotidiana.org
Louise Imogen Guiney Papers, 1884-1979 (bulk 1884-1921), Vassar College Libraries
Louise Imogen Guiney Collection: Late nineteenth-century works by this American poet and essayist, (95 titles). From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
Poems by Louise Imogen Guiney
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Kate Drew-Wilkinson: Louise Imogen Guiney is my Great Great Aunt. She took my young Mother, Louise Guiney and my great Aunts Grace and Ruth Guiney to England, to Oxford and cared for them until her death. I have stories and many images of her with family, thanks to Grace and Ruth making a family album. Pictures by Fred Holland Day. I have pictures of her with her cat Wee -one.. and I will spend the rest of my days reading, researching and enjoying, now that I am 83. I would love to hear from any of those who know and love her work, or any way I can be led to some Guiney relatives..The only ones I knew and knew well were my Great Aunts, living outside Oxford.
