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Louise Imogen Guiney as Saint Barbara

American Woman Poet and Writer

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Louise Imogen Guiney, a Boston poet of the 1890s aesthetics revival, is here pictured in a costume as Saint Barbara, complete with laurel wreath, sword and pencilled-in halo.
Louise Imogen Guiney in Saint Barbara costume

Louise Imogen Guiney in Saint Barbara costume

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Louise Guiney was influenced in her writing by her Roman Catholicism, and when she was briefly employed as a postmaster, she experienced discrimination from patrons who held her Catholicism against her. Read more: Louise Guiney - biography

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