Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, essayist, and scholar. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to General Patrick R. Guiney (an Irish-American Civil War officer) and Jeannette Margaret Doyle. From a young age, pursued a literary career, publishing poetry in Boston Pilot and later releasing her first collection, Songs at the Start (1884). Acquaintance with Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Fields, and Alice Brown, as well as avant-garde artists like Ralph Adams Cram and Fred Holland Day. Travelled to London in 1889 and, upon her return to America, published A Roadside Harp (1893). In 1901, relocated to Oxford, England, where she focused on editing and reviving the work of seventeenth-century Catholic poets like Henry Vaughan. Some of her poetry collections are The White Sail and Other Poems (1887) and Happy Ending: Collected Lyrics (1908). She also wrote fiction, including the fairy tale collection Brownies and Bogles (1888) and the short story collection Fairy tales Lovers’ Saint Ruth’s and Three Other Tales (1895). Died in Chipping Campden. Biographical information: ANB. (NM)