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- Title
Mary Tighe, Thomas Moore, and the Publication of Selena.
- Authors
Linkin, Harriet Kramer
- Abstract
This essay takes a close look at the impact Mary Tighe’s friendship with Thomas Moore had on her publishing history, both during her lifetime and after her death. Tighe’s letters and journals indicate that the negative reviews of Moore’s Epistles, Odes and Other Poems (1806) strengthened her commitment to coterie circulation and her resistance to moving any of her manuscripts into print beyond the limited private edition of Psyche; or, the Legend of Love (1805), including a two-volume collection of her poems, ‘Verses Transcribed for H.T.’ (1805) and her novel Selena (c. 1803). After Tighe’s death her family posthumously published Psyche, with Other Poems (1811) with Longman as a monument to her excellence. Although Longman sought to publish Selena in 1818, Moore advised Longman against the novel’s publication, which did not occur until 2012. The novel’s sharp caricature of Moore as the hapless Edwin Stanmore may have played a role in his reluctance to advocate publication; so may his desire to preserve an idealized image of Tighe that is undermined by the novel’s violence.
- Subjects
TIGHE, Mary, 1772-1810; SELENA (Book); MOORE, Thomas; BRITISH authors; ENGLISH literature
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2014, Vol 65, Issue 271, p711
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgt098