Emily Henrietta Hickey

Born on April 12, 1845, at Macmine Castle near Enniscorthy in County Wexford, she was raised in Goreybridge, County Carlow, in a family with strong clerical and literary connections. Reliable biographical sources describe her as an Irish poet, writer, teacher, and translator, and note that she was the granddaughter of William Hickey, known as "Martin Doyle."

She developed literary interests early, publishing poetry from the 1860s, and later moved to London to pursue a wider literary life. Sources also place her in important literary circles there: she worked in teaching and lecturing, and she was associated with figures around Alexander Macmillan and F. J. Furnivall. She is also noted as a co-founder of the Browning Society in 1881.

Her books included A Sculptor and Other Poems, Verse-Tales, Lyrics and Translations, Michael Villiers, Idealist, and Other Poems, and later Later Poems. After her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1901, her writing turned more strongly toward religious themes. She died in London on September 9, 1924.