Harriet Kramer Linkin is Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at New Mexico State University.

This edition assembles for the first time in print the letters of Mary Tighe, Ireland’s best known and most influential Romantic-era woman poet. With Linkin’s skillful and comprehensive annotations, the letters open new horizons on Tighe’s extraordinary life and work by drawing us into the poet’s extensive social, political, and artistic milieu. This edition is unquestionably the definitive resource for Tighe’s correspondence. It will be of foundational importance for scholarship on Tighe, for Irish studies generally, and for the continuing reconsideration of the nature and scope of Romanticism in the British Isles.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of LettersIntroductionEditorial MattersBrief ChronologyTighe Family TreeThe Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe 1786-1810Biographical NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor

Harriet Kramer Linkin is Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at New Mexico State University.

This edition assembles for the first time in print the letters of Mary Tighe, Ireland’s best known and most influential Romantic-era woman poet. With Linkin’s skillful and comprehensive annotations, the letters open new horizons on Tighe’s extraordinary life and work by drawing us into the poet’s extensive social, political, and artistic milieu. This edition is unquestionably the definitive resource for Tighe’s correspondence. It will be of foundational importance for scholarship on Tighe, for Irish studies generally, and for the continuing reconsideration of the nature and scope of Romanticism in the British Isles.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of LettersIntroductionEditorial MattersBrief ChronologyTighe Family TreeThe Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe 1786-1810Biographical NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor

Harriet Kramer Linkin is Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at New Mexico State University.

This edition assembles for the first time in print the letters of Mary Tighe, Ireland’s best known and most influential Romantic-era woman poet. With Linkin’s skillful and comprehensive annotations, the letters open new horizons on Tighe’s extraordinary life and work by drawing us into the poet’s extensive social, political, and artistic milieu. This edition is unquestionably the definitive resource for Tighe’s correspondence. It will be of foundational importance for scholarship on Tighe, for Irish studies generally, and for the continuing reconsideration of the nature and scope of Romanticism in the British Isles.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of LettersIntroductionEditorial MattersBrief ChronologyTighe Family TreeThe Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe 1786-1810Biographical NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor