NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810 NRA: Tighe Mary (1772-1810) nee Blachford Poet DNB: Tighe [née Blachford], Mary (1772-1810), poet LBT ID: MaTighe1810 VIAF ID: 19940756 LOC ID: n92069638 | B/BAP: 1772-10-09 DIED: 1810-03-24 |
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Irish poet, the daughter of William Blachford; in 1793 she married Henry Tighe
(1768-1836); following her death from consumption her poem Psyche
obtained great renown. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Mary Tighe [née Blachford]: Mary Tighe to Sydney Owenson, [1807?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) |