Louise Guiney Facts:
Occupation: poet, writer
Dates: January 7, 1861 - November 2, 1920
Also known as: Louise Imogen Guiney
Louise Guiney Biography:
Guiney, born in Massachusetts, was part of Boston's "aesthetic revival" in the 1890s. Friends included Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields. Her Roman Catholicism and her literary conservatism -- looking backwards to Romantic, 17th century and Civil War poets -- were reflected in her sentimental style. She was also known for sometimes dressing in men's clothing.
Her poetry did not support her fully, so Louise Guiney served from 1894 as a postmaster in Auburndale outside of Boston, where she found that some residents refused to use the post office because a Roman Catholic would be serving them. Some of her Boston friends traveled to Auburndale for their stamps, to help offset this discrimination. She left her job as postmaster in 1897, after an illness, and worked for two years at the Boston Public Library. She continued to write and edit.
Family, Background:
- Mother: Janet M. Doyle
- Father: Patrick Robert Guiney, lawyer, Civil War brigadier general for the Union (died 1877)
Education:
Elmhurst Convent of the sacred Heart, Jesuit convent school, Providence, Rhode Island; graduated 1879
Louise Guiney on this site:
- Louise Guiney Quotes
Includes poems by Guiney. - Louise Guiney Poems
Bibliography:
- Happy Ending: The Collected Lyrics of Louise Imogen Guiney: Library Binding. Compare Prices
- Louise Imogen Guiney, Henry C. Fairbanks, Library Binding. Compare Prices
- Patrins, to Which Is Added an Inquirendo into the Wit and Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second, Louise Guiney. Compare Prices
