The mind of Emily Lawless was a concrete mind with a turn for affairs with a man's business outlook, large and lucid, not over-concerned with detail still more with a gift for natural science, her 'ruling passion' from seven years old onwards, and for the methods of minute research. If she was first an Irishwoman, it was not of the type usually accepted as representative, at least in England - the vague and mystical Celt, impetuous, unpractical, guided by forces outside reason. And in each of these many parts Emily Lawless won distinction in her poems, in her writing of Irish romances, of Hurrish and of Grania, something stronger and more likely to endure. All the rest includes a great deal: a writer of novels and of romance, an historian, a naturalist, a lover of science, a bold thinker.
Last October there passed out from among us one of our few women-poets, Emily Lawless, Irishwoman first, and nil the rest afterwards.
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