Louise Imogen Guiney Manuscript

Collection — Box: VMF 6, Folder: 6

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf071

Staff Only

Autograph poem by Guiney, Winter Boughs. Signed, 1 page

Dates

Creation: 1894 August 24

Creator

Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920 (Person)

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Louise Imogen Guiney (January 7, 1861 – November 2, 1920) was an American poet, essayist and editor born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She was educated at Elmhurst, convent school in Providence, Rhode Island and to help support her family she began contributing to various newspapers and magazines. Her poems, collected in Songs at the Start (1884) and The White Sail and Other Poems (1887), and her essays, collected in Goose Quill Papers (1885), soon attracted the attention of the Boston literary establishment, and the verse in A Roadside Harp (1893) and the essays in Monsieur Henri (1892), A Little English Gallery (1894), and Patrins (1897) brought her to the center of aesthetic life in Boston. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Thomas W. Higginson, and Edmund Clarence Stedman were among her friends and patrons, and on visits to England in the 1890s she met Edmund Gosse, W.B. Yeats, and others. A walking tour of England with her friend Alice Brown in 1895 led to their collaboration on Robert Louis Stevenson—a Study (1895).

When, toward the end of the 1890s, her health and her muse both deserted her, Guiney turned to scholarship, concentrating mainly on the. From 1901 she lived in England. Her later books include England and Yesterday (1898), Martyr’s Idyll and Shorter Poems (1899), Hurrell Froude (1904), Robert Emmet—His Rebellion and His Romance (1904), The Blessed Edmund Campion (1908), and Happy Ending (1909, revised 1927), her collected verse. Her unfinished anthology of Catholic poets from Sir Thomas More to Alexander Pope, prepared in collaboration with Geoffrey Bliss, was published as Recusant Poets in 1939.

She died from a stroke on November 2, 1920.