A Guide to the Papers of Louise Imogen Guiney 1885-1918

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains the manuscripts of several poems including "The recruit," "A talisman," "Davy," "For a grave in Glasnevin," and "Gloucester Harbor."

Correspondents include William S. Braithwaite, Beverly Chew, Percy J. Dobell, Helen Fish, Richard Watson Gilder, Harper & Brothers, Houghton, Mifflin Co., Robert Underwood Johnson, Arthur W. Kelly, John Lane, Herbert Newman Mozley, Ella Farman Pratt, Edmund C. Richards, Clinton Scollard, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Herbert Pelham Williams, and James C. Young.

The collection also contains a photograph of Guiney, and a clipping of photographs of her mother and of her father Patrick R. Guiney in his Civil War uniform, and a newspaper portrait of her.

Biographical / historical:

Louise Imogen Guiney was born January 7, 1861 in Roxbury, Mass., the daughter of Patrick Robert Guiney (January 15,1835-March 21,1877) and Jeannette Margaret Doyle Guiney. Guiney died November 2, 1920 in Chipping Campden, England.

Her father served in the Union army during the Civil War, was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864, and died from the effects of a wound that he received in the Battle of the Wilderness. Louise was graduated from Elmhurst Academy, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1879. Her earliest literary work appeared in the Boston Post and the Boston Courier; in 1887 she was a contributor to Harper's,Scribner's, and the Atlantic Monthly.

Her works include: Songs at the Start (1884, poetry); Goose-Quill Papers (1885, essays); The White Sail and Other Poems (1887, poetry); Brownies and Bogles (1888, poetry); Monsieur Henri: A Foot-Note to French History (1892, essays); A Roadside Harp (1893, poetry); A Little English Gallery (1895, essays); Robert Louis Stevenson (1895, biography, with Alice Brown); Lovers' Saint Ruth's and Three Other Tales (1895, short stories); Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford (1895, poetry); Patrins (1897, essays); England and Yesterday (1898, poetry); The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems (1899, poetry); Robert Emmet (1904); The Princess of the Tower (1906, poetry); Blessed Edmund Campion (1908); Happy Ending (1909, poetry, her collected verse); Letters (1926, letters); Recusant Poets (1939, ed., with Geoffrey Bliss)

Acquisition information:
This collection was deposited by Clifton Waller Barrett on December 17, 1963, and accessioned on September 3, 1964.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into three series: Manuscripts, Letters, and Photographs and Drawings. Items are arranged chronologically within each series.

Physical description:
73 items.