Lucy Knox (9 November 1845 – 10 May 1884), styled The Honourable from 1870 until her death, was an Anglo-Irish poet of the

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. Knox was born as Lucy Spring Rice in

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, the second daughter of Stephen Spring Rice and Ellen Mary Frere, and a granddaughter of

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. At the age of twenty, she married Octavius Newry Knox, grandson of

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, and her married name became Knox. Her first published work, a sonnet, appeared in an 1870 edition of ''

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''. Knox's first collection of poetry, ''Sonnets and Other Poems'' was published privately in London in 1870. The volume contained thirty-three poems, largely concerned with social and political concerns, love, and marriage. In 1877 Knox contributed several poems to the '' Irish Monthly'' alongside her father and cousin,

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. Her second and final collection of poetry, ''Four Pictures from a Life, and Other Poems'', was published in 1884, containing forty-seven original poems, sixteen translations from German and two translations from Italian. Among them was ''Carlyle'', a lament for her family friend

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. A review in '' The Academy'' expressed admiration for Knox's genuineness and merit.Lucy Knox biographical details fro
Orlando, Cambridge University Press
Retrieved 18 February 2019. Knox died at the age of 39 having had three daughters and one son with Octavius. Their grandson was the British judge Sir John Leonard Knox.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Knox, Lucy 1845 births 1884 deaths 19th-century Anglo-Irish people 19th-century Irish poets 19th-century English poets

Lucy Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lu ...

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