EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY
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Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845-1923) was an Irish author, narrative poet
and translator.
She was born in Macmine Castle, near Enniscorthy in County Wexford,
daughter of the Rev. J. S. Hickey, Protestant rector of Goresbridge
and grand-daughter of Rev. William Hickey ("Martin Doyle"), an
agriculturist. She studied at Cambridge and then became lecturer in
English language and literature at University College there. She sold
her first poem, "Told in the Twilight" to the Cornhill Magazine in
1866 and afterwards contributed to Longman's Magazine, Good Words, The
Athenaeum, the Irish Monthly and many others. Her first book of poems,
A Sculptor, ensured her success as a poet. She followed this with
Verse Tales, Lyrics, and Translations (1889), Verse-Translations, and
other poems (1891), Michael Villiers, Idealist, and other poems
(1891), Ancilla Domini (1898) and Our Lady of May and other Poems
(1902). She also wrote many short stories.
With Frederick James Furnivall she founded the Browning Society in
1881.
Hickey wrote about ten books dealing with religious matters after
converting to Catholicism in 1901. One of her better-known poems is
Beloved, It Is Morn. She died in London.