Katherine Tynan - Love of Brothers: "It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything."

by Katharine Tynan

Book Overview

Katherine Tynan was born on January 23rd 1859 into a large farming family in Clondalkin, County Dublin, and educated at a convent school in Drogheda. In her early years she suffered from eye ulcers, which left her somewhat myopic. She first began to have her poems published in 1878. A great friend to Gerard Manley Hopkins and to WB Yeats (who it is rumoured proposed marriage but was rejected). With Yeats to encourage her, her poetry blossomed and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785433954
• ISBN13: 9781785433955
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"