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 institution in Dublin, "The Home of Refuge for Unprotected Female Servants."

Her daughter, Mary, beautiful, gifted, and highly-connected, was, at an early age, the centre of attraction at the Viceregal Court. In 1703, when she was just 21, she married her cousin, Mr. Henry Tighe, of Rosanna, County Wicklow. The marriage was not a happy one. Mrs. Tighe was, perhaps, too much engrossed in dreams and visions to be fit for the stern realities of married life. Soon after her marriage, she went with her husband, who was a barrister of the Middle Temple, to London, and mixed a good deal in society. A few years subsequently, her poem of "Psyche" was printed for private circulation. It is an allegory, written in the Spenserian metre, with now and then a touch that reminds one of the Fairy Queen.

Venus, jealous of the beauty of Psyche, sends her son, Cupid, to the earth, who straightaway falls in love with the nymph himself. There is the radiant isle of pleasure, the fatal curiosity, which sends Psyche, weeping and wandering, through the forests of her earthly penance, where she meets the mysterious knight, Constans. Psyche is betrayed by Vanity and Flattery to Ambition; she has to go through the bower of Loose Delight, to encounter the attacks of Slander; to pass through the court of Spleen and the drear Island of In-