1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TIGHE, MARY (1772-1810), Irish poet, daughter of the Rev. William Blachford, was born on the gth of October 1772. In 1793 she contracted what proved to be an unhappy marriage with her cousin, Henry Tighe, of Woodstock, Co. Wicklow. She died on the 24th of March 1810, at Woodstock, Co. Kilkenny, and was buried at Inistjoge. Mrs Tighe was the author of a poem of unusual merit, Psyche or the Legend of Love, printed privately in 1805 and published posthumously in 1811 with some other poems. It is founded on the story a…
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