Louise Imogen Guiney

ca. 1900

Louise Imogen Guiney (January 7, 1861 – November 2, 1920) was an American poet, essayist and editor, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Biography

Louise Imogen Guiney
Photograph by Fred Holland Day (1893).

The daughter of Gen. Patrick R. Guiney, an Irish-born American Civil War officer and lawyer,^[1] and Jeannette Margaret Doyle, she was educated at a convent school 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 as a cataloger at the Boston Public Library.

In 1901, Guiney moved to Oxford, England, to focus on her poetry and essay writing. She soon began to suffer from ill health and was no longer able to write poetry and instead concentrated on critical and biographical studies of English Catholic poets and writers.

Guiney died of a stroke near Gloucestershire, England, at age 59, leaving much of her work unfinished.^[2]

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)
• 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

1. The American Magazine, Vol 8 (1888)
2. "Vassar College Libraries - ''Guide to the Louise Imogen Guiney Papers''". Specialcollections.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2012-12-22.

Sources

• NNDB
• 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.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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