SNIPPET: Louise Imogen GUINEY (1861-1920) grew up in a prosperous family in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Her education consisted of private tutors and then studying at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an elite convent school. Her genteel life disappeared when her father, an immigrant from Tipperary who had earned fame as a Union Army general, died prematurely of war wounds when she was only 16. By the age of 19, however, GUINEY's poems began to appear in periodicals like the "Atlantic Monthly" and "Scribner's." In 1884 the first of some 30 books of her poetry and prose were published. To supplement her inadequate literary earnings, she accepted an appointment as the postmaster in the Boston suburb of Auburndale. But protests and a boycott by local nativists over the appointment of a Catholic woman to such a prominent position caused her to resign in 1897. In 1900 she sailed to England to concentrate on her writing, where she remained until her death in 1920.