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Life
[Mrs Edward Dowden, qv.]; dg. John West, Dean of St Patrick’s; met Edmund Dowden [q.v.] as a student at Alexandra Coll., 1867; formed long lasting friendship and married hi on the death of his wife in 1895; his collection A Woman’s Reliquary is dedicated to her; Verses by EDW (Dublin 1876); Verses, Part 2 (Dublin 1883); Iphigeneia in Tauris, trans. from Goethe [Temple Dramatists] (1906); she edited Poems by Edward Dowden (1914) and Letters of Edward Dowden and his Correspondents, with her sister H.M. Dowden (1914). PI
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse (Dublin: Hodges and Figgis 1912), cites Verses by E.D.W. (Dublin 1876); Verses, Part 2 (Dublin 1833); dg. Dean West, and now Mrs Edward Dowden; three pieces in Lyra Hibernica Sacra, and represented in Dublin Book of Irish Verse.
The Temple Dramatists shared the Dowdens’ address at Temple Rd. in North Dublin City.
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