ABSTRACT
January 1909, pp. 433ff
Katherine Brégy was an American writer of French descent who was born in Philadelphia and studied at the University under Cornelius Weygandt (see No. 99). She was received into the Catholic Church in 1904. She began to correspond with Louise Guiney (see No. 16), who urged her to write about Hopkins, while Fr Russell, SJ, editor of the Irish Monthly, warned her off the poet as a ‘very odd’ and ‘not practical subject’.
The Catholic World was an American monthly of religious and general interest founded by the Paulist fathers in 1865. Brégy’s reminiscences began to appear in the magazine in February 1939 and include some interesting information about personalities associated with the development of Hopkins’s reputation. She died in 1967.
The full article from which these extracts are taken was later reprinted in The Poet’s Chantry, a collection of Brégy’s essays (see No. 5).
