Katharine Tynan (January 23, 1861 - April 2, 1931) was a prolific 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. Tynan went on to play a major part in Dublin literary life, 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). 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.

Tynan died in Wimbledon, London, in 1931 at the age of 70.

Publications

• Louise de la Vallière (1885) poems
• Shamrocks (1887)
• Ballads & Lyrics (1891)
• Irish Love-Songs (1892)
• A Cluster of Nuts, Being Sketches Among My Own People (1894)
• Cuckoo Songs (1894)
• Miracle Plays (1895)
• The Land of Mist and Mountain (1895)
• The Way of a Maid (1895)
• Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of Derrymore (c.1895) later Illustrated by G. Demain Hammond
• An Isle in the Water (1896)
• The Golden Lily (1899)
• The Dear Irish Girl (1899)
• Oh, What a plague is Love! (1900)
• Her Father's Daughter (1900)
• Poems (1901)
• A Daughter Of The Fields (1901)
• A Kings Woman (1902)
• Love of Sisters (1902)
• The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh (1902)
• The Handsome Quaker, and other Stories (1902)
• The Adventures of Carlo (1903) illustrated by E. A. Cubitt
• The Luck of the Fairfaxes (1904)
• A Daughter of Kings (1905)
• Innocencies (1905) poems
• For the White Rose (1905)
• A Little Book for Mary Gill's Friends (1905)
• The Story of Bawn (1906)
• The Yellow Domino (1906)
• Book of Memory (1906)
• Dick Pentreath (1906)
• The Cabinet of Irish Literature. (4 volumes) (1906) editor, expansion of work by Charles Read
• The Rhymed Life of St Patrick (1907) Illustrated by Lyndsay Symington
• Twenty-One Poems By Katherine Tynan Selected By W.B. Yeats (1907)
• A Little Book of XXIV Carols (1907)
• Father Mathew (1908) biography of Theobald Mathew
• Experiences (1908)
• A Union of Hearts (1908)
• The House of the Crickets (1908)
• Ireland (1909)
• A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends (1909)
• The Book Of Flowers (1909) with Frances Maitland
• Mary Gray(1909)
• A Girl of Galway
• The Rich Man
• A Red, Red Rose (c.1910)
• Heart O' Gold or the Little Princess
• The Story of Cecelia (1911)
• New Poems (1911)
• Princess Katharine (1911)
• Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences (1913)
• Irish Poems (1913)
• The Wild Harp (1913) poetry anthology, editor, illustrated by C. M. Watts
• A Mesalliance (1913)
• The Daughter of the Manor (1914) illustrated by John Campbell
• A Shameful Inheritance (1914)
• The Flower of Peace (1914) poems
• Mary Beaudesert, V. S. (1915)
• Flower of Youth (1915) poems
• The Curse of Castle Eagle (1915)
• The House of the Foxes (1915) novel
• Lord Edward: A Study in Romance (1916)
• The Middle Years (1916)
• Margery Dawe (1916) illustrated by Frank E. Wiles
• Late Songs (1917)
• Herb O'Grace (1918) poems
• The sad years (1918) tribute to Dora Sigerson
• The Years of the Shadow (1919)
• The Honourable Molly (1919)
• Denys the Dreamer (1920)
• The Handsome Brandons (1921) Illustrated by G. D. Hammond
• The Wandering Years (1922)
• Evensong (1922)
• White Ladies (1922)
• A Mad Marriage (1922) novel
• Memories (1924)
• The Man from Australia (1925)
• The Wild Adventure (1927)
• Twilight Songs (1927)
• The Face in the Picture (1927)
• Haroun of London (1927)
• Pat, the Adventurer (1928)
• Bitha's Wonderful Year (1928)
• The Respectable Lady (1928)
• The River (1929)
• Castle Perilous (1929)
• The Squires Sweetheart (1930)
• Denise the Daughter (1930)
• Collected Poems (1930)
• The Admirable Simmons (1930)
• The Forbidden Way (1931)
• Philippa's Lover (1931)
• A Lonely Maid (1931)
• The Story of Our Lord (1932)
• The Other Man (1932)
• An International Marriage (1933)
• Londonderry Air (1935)
• The Briar Bush Maid
• A little radiant girl, illustrated by John Campbell
• A Passionate Pilgrim
• Maxims
• The Poems of Katharine Tynan (1963) edited by Monk Gibbon

References

• Some Catholic Novelists: Their Art and Outlook (1931) Patrick Braybrook
• W. B.Yeats, Letters to Katharine Tynan (1953) edited by Roger McHugh
• Katharine Tynan (1974, Bucknell University Press) Marilyn Gaddis Rose
• Katharine Tynan (1979, Twayne Publishers) Ann Connerton Fallon

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