Tighe family
Centred in Rosanna, County Wicklow, Ireland, around Mary (Blachford) Tighe and her first cousin and husband Henry Tighe; active 1801-1810. Other literary members of the family were Mary’s mother Theodosia (Tighe) Blachford, her maternal uncles Edward and William (the latter was her husband’s father), and her husband's siblings Catherine (Tighe) Hamilton and William Tighe (1766–1816). Mary and her family members had connections with the Ponsonby family, including Sarah Ponsonby and her companion Eleanor Butler (the Ladies of Llangollen), the Bowdlers, Elizabeth Hamilton, Thomas Moore, and other leading Irish, English, and Scottish literary figures.
Theodosia Tighe Blanchford
- 1744
- 1817
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Philanthropist and leading figure in the Methodist Church in Ireland; mother of Mary Blanchford Tighe, and member of the Tighe family coterie.
Charlotte Eleanor Butler
- 1739
- 1829
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Elder of the two Ladies of Llangollen, whose unconventional relationship and lifestyle made them celebrities and a source of inspiration to the Romantic poets.
Caroline Tighe Hamilton
- 1777
- 1861
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Sister-in-law of Mary Blanchford Tighe, and member of her family coterie.
Sarah Ponsonby
- 1755
- 1831
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Younger of the Ladies of Llangollen, whose unconventional relationship and lifestyle made them celebrities, and a source of inspiration to the Romantic poets.
Edward Tighe
- 1740
- 1801
| Coteries | Tighe family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
|---|
Uncle of Mary Blanchford Tighe.
Henry Tighe
- 1768
- 1836
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Irish husband of Mary Blanchford Tighe; brother of Catherine Tighe Hamilton and William Tighe (1766–1816).
Mary Blachford Tighe
- 1772
- 1810
| Coteries | Tighe family, and Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network |
|---|
Poet and hostess of a salon in Ireland; known for her six-canto allegorical poem Psyche (1805).
William Tighe (1738–1784)
- 1738
- 1784
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Father of William Tighe (1766–1816) and Henry Tighe; uncle and father-in-law of Mary Blanchford Tighe.
William Tighe (1766–1816)
- 1766
- 1816
| Coteries | Tighe family |
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Politician, topographer, and landowner; son of William Tighe (1738–1782) and brother of Henry Tighe; compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany which consists mainly of his original work.
Folger MS M.a.163
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | Folger Shakespeare Library |
Anonymous, 1786–1798.
120 poems.
A very feminocentric collection with many female-authored works.
Manuscript appears connected to the Cavendish-Ponsonby-Crewe network; the Tighe family; the Ladies of Llangollen
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1791-1820 |
| Archive | University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center |
William Tighe, ca. 1815.
25 poems.
Mainly light-hearted original poems on such subjects as love, theatre, and furniture.
| Period | Description | Manuscripts | Coteries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1791-1820 | some or all of the miscellany's compilation period falls within this timespan |
77 | 7 |