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

The only daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan,[2] and his wife, the former Susannah Hoare,[3] she was born Henrietta Boyle.[1][4] Her father died in 1759 and her mother later married Thomas Brudenell-Bruce;[4] her younger half-siblings included Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury. She married John O'Neill in 1777, when he was an Irish MP.[5]

Henrietta O'Neill was a friend of the English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith.[1] She was also an amateur actor[3] and painter.[6] Her best known poems are "Ode to the Poppy"[4] and "Written on Seeing her Two Sons at Play".[7]

Her two children were:[8]

O'Neill died in Portugal in 1793, while still in her thirties.[9] Her husband outlived her, becoming a baron in 1793 and a viscount in 1795,[5] but was killed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 at the age of 58.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Blackburne, E Owens (1877). Illustrious Irishwomen. Vol. 2. pp. 70–72. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  2. ↑ Rowton, Frederic (1856). The female poets of Great Britain, chronologically arranged. p. 163. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 Macdonald, D L; McWhir, Anne (2010). The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832. p. 358. ISBN 978-1551110516. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Lonsdale, Roger (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. p. 457. ISBN 0192827758. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  5. 1 2 The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland: The peerage of Ireland. 1790. p. 25. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  6. ↑ "[image] Trompe l'oeil of the Madonna and Child (after Raphael) and the Two Testaments". commons.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Andrew Carpenter (1998). Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland. Cork University Press. p. 475. ISBN 978-1-85918-104-1. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  8. ↑ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  9. ↑ Cave, Edward (1833). The Gentleman's Magazine. pp. 130–32. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  10. ↑ John Debrett (1816). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. F.C. and J. Rivington. p. 876. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2019.


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