ABSTRACT
L ouise Imogen Guiney was a lifelong professional writer. Be-ginning in her early 20s, when her first poems and essays appeared in magazines and newspapers in her hometown of Boston, then still the literary capital of the United States, until her death at age 59 in England, Guiney wrote substantively in a variety of genres: poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose (biography, essays, scholarly-critical editions, translations, and letters). She published seven books of poetry, two collections of essays and two of short fiction, three biographies, and editions of work by Matthew Arnold, Hurrell Froude, Lionel Johnson, James Clarence Mangan, Katherine Philips, Thomas Stanley, and Henry Vaughan, to name a few, as well as translations of Louise Morvan and St. Francis of Assisi. None of this considerable body of work is still in print, although 11 of her poems are reprinted in two late-20th-century anthologies (see Kilcup, 1996; Gray, 1997).
