Henrietta O'Neill

Henrietta O'Neill (1758 – September 1793) was an Irish poet.[1]

The only daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan[2] and Susannah Hoare,[3] she was born Henrietta Boyle.[1] Her father died in 1759 and her mother later married Thomas Brudenell-Bruce.[4] She married John O'Neill in 1777.[5] O'Neill was a friend of the English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith.[1] She was also an amateur actor.[3]

Her best known poem was "Ode to the Poppy".[4]

O'Neill died in Portugal in 1793.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Blackburne, E Owens (1877). Illustrious Irishwomen. Volume 2. p. 70-72.
  2. ↑ Rowton, Frederic (1856). The female poets of Great Britain, chronologically arranged. p. 163.
  3. 1 2 Macdonald, D L; McWhir, Anne (2010). The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832. p. 358. ISBN 1551110512.
  4. 1 2 Lonsdale, Roger (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. p. 457. ISBN 0192827758.
  5. ↑ The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland: The peerage of Ireland. 1790. p. 25.
  6. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine. 1833. pp. 130–32.
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