Birth date: 
01/23/1861
Death date: 
04/02/1931

Katharine Tynan was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson (or Katharine Tynan-Hinkson or Katharine Hinkson-Tynan). Of their three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982) was also known as a writer.

Biography

Tynan was born into a large farming family in Clondalkin, County Dublin, and educated at a convent school in Drogheda. Her poems were first published in 1878. She met and became friendly with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1886. Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary circles, until she married and moved to England; later she lived at Claremorris, County Mayo when her husband was a magistrate there from 1914 until 1919.

For a while, Tynan was a close associate of William Butler Yeats (who may have proposed marriage and been rejected, around 1885), and later a correspondent of Francis Ledwidge. She is said to have written over 100 novels; there were some unsurprising comments about a lack of self-criticism in her output. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1930; she also wrote five autobiographical volumes.

Poems by this Poet

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Starling 31 July 2013
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Telling the Bees For Edward Tennant 31 July 2013
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The Aerodrome 31 July 2013
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The Bird's Bargain 31 July 2013
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The Boys Of The House For Valentine and Hubert Blake 31 July 2013
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The Bride 31 July 2013
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The Broken Soldier 31 July 2013
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The Brothers For Arnold and Donald Fletcher 31 July 2013
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The Call 31 July 2013
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The Children of Lir 31 July 2013
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