Katharine Tynan, also Katharine Hinkson, or Hinkson-Tynan, was born on
1859 at Whitehall dairy farm, Clondalkin, County Dublin. She was one of the twelve children of Andrew Cullen Tynan and Elizabeth Reilly Tynan.
She attended the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Siena, Drogheda until the age of 14 and was considered a religious novitiate.*
She suffered from chronic eye ulcers in childhood and was myopic from then
onwards.Her first poem appeared in Graphic in 1878, and she subsequently contributed poems to the Irish Monthly, Hibernia and the Dublin University Review from 1880 to 1885.She first met W. B. Yeats (‘all dreams and
gentleness’), in June 1885, in connection with C. H. Oldham’s Dublin University
Review. Thus began a life-long correspondence with Yeats, who described her as ‘very plain’ though he was always affectionate towards her.Tynan’s first book, Louise de la Valliere and Other Poems, was heavily influenced by Christina Rossetti and described by Yeats as ‘too full of English influence to be
quite Irish’.
Her second volume, Shamrocks, contained exclusively Irish subject-matter.She lived in Ireland until her marriage in 1893 to Henry Albert Hinkson, a barrister and novelist and contemporary of Yeats.In 1913, she wrote memoirs of the literary revival, Twenty-Five Years, which appeared with several dozens of Yeats’s early letters printed without permission or any opportunity for corrections!
In 1920, she sold Yeats’s letters to Quinn for £100.She also wrote 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, 3 plays, and anthologies,as well as innumerable articles on social questions such as poverty among children and the working conditions of women.
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1859 at Whitehall dairy farm, Clondalkin, County Dublin. She was one of the twelve children of Andrew Cullen Tynan and Elizabeth Reilly Tynan.
She attended the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Siena, Drogheda until the age of 14 and was considered a religious novitiate.*
She suffered from chronic eye ulcers in childhood and was myopic from then
onwards.Her first poem appeared in Graphic in 1878, and she subsequently contributed poems to the Irish Monthly, Hibernia and the Dublin University Review from 1880 to 1885.She first met W. B. Yeats (‘all dreams and
gentleness’), in June 1885, in connection with C. H. Oldham’s Dublin University
Review. Thus began a life-long correspondence with Yeats, who described her as ‘very plain’ though he was always affectionate towards her.Tynan’s first book, Louise de la Valliere and Other Poems, was heavily influenced by Christina Rossetti and described by Yeats as ‘too full of English influence to be
quite Irish’.
Her second volume, Shamrocks, contained exclusively Irish subject-matter.She lived in Ireland until her marriage in 1893 to Henry Albert Hinkson, a barrister and novelist and contemporary of Yeats.In 1913, she wrote memoirs of the literary revival, Twenty-Five Years, which appeared with several dozens of Yeats’s early letters printed without permission or any opportunity for corrections!
In 1920, she sold Yeats’s letters to Quinn for £100.She also wrote 100 novels, 12 collections of short stories, 3 plays, and anthologies,as well as innumerable articles on social questions such as poverty among children and the working conditions of women.
[noh-vish-ee-it, -eyt]
1.
the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
2.
the quarters occupied by religious novices during probation.
3.
the state or period of being a beginner in anything.
4.
a novice.
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