Patrins: To Which is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit and Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second

334 pp. A collection of essays. Louise Imogen Guiney, (born Jan. 7, 1861, Roxbury [now in Boston], Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 2, 1920, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Eng.), American poet and essayist, a popular and respected figure in the Boston literary circle of her day. Guiney was educated at Elmhurst, a convent school in Providence, Rhode Island. To help support her family she began contributing to various newspapers and magazines. Her poems, collected in Songs at the Start (1884) and The White Sail and Other Poems (1887), and her essays, collected in Goose Quill Papers (1885), soon attracted the attention of the Boston literary establishment, and the verse in A Roadside Harp (1893) and the essays in Monsieur Henri (1892), A Little English Gallery (1894), and Patrins (1897) brought her to the centre of aesthetic life in Boston. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Thomas W. Higginson, and Edmund Clarence Stedman were among her friends and patrons, and on visits to England in the 1890s she met Edmund Gosse, W.B. Yeats, and others. A walking tour of England with her friend Alice Brown in 1895 led to their collaboration on Robert Louis Stevenson—a Study (1895). Her own models in literature were chiefly William Hazlitt and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.