Born in 1861 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the poet, essayist, and scholar Louise Imogen Guiney was the only surviving child of Patrick Robert Guiney, an Irish immigrant officer breveted Brigadier General for distinguished service in the Union forces during the American Civil War, and Jeannette Margaret Doyle, relative of James Warren Doyle, the archbishop of Kildare and Leighlin, a leader in the early nineteenth-century British Catholic Emancipation movement. Educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Providence, Rhode Island, Guiney found that after her 1879 graduation she had to financially support herself and her mother, as her father had died from after-effects of his war wounds two years earlier. Providentially, with assistance from her father’s friend John Boyle O’Reilly and…
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Citation: Nauman, Jonathan, Holly Faith Nelson. "Louise Imogen Guiney". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 October 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1911, accessed 25 November 2024.]
