Biographical Note
Louise Imogen Guiney was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1861, the daughter of General Patrick R. Guiney, an Irish-born American Civil War officer and lawyer. She was educated at Elmhurst Convent school in Providence, Rhode Island, and worked as a postmistress in Auburndale, Mass., and cataloger at the Boston Public Library. In 1884, she published her first book of poems, Songs at the Start, followed in the 1890s by collections of poems and essays entitled A Roadside Harp and Patrins. She edited editions of James Clarence Mangan and of Matthew Arnold, and shared with Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford and Alice Brown the authorship of Three Heroines of English Romance. She moved to England in 1901 and died at Gloucesterhire on November 2, 1920.