Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Adelaide Procter
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Standard Name: Procter, Adelaide
Birth Name: Adelaide Anne Procter
Indexed Name: Adelaide Procter
Pseudonym: Mary Berwick
AP
's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the Langham Place Circle
and supporter of the Victoria Press
, for which she edited the showcase annual The Victoria Regia as well as contributing journalism and poetry to the English Woman's Journal. A convert to Catholicism, much of whose oeuvre is religious poetry (at times put to the service of social protest), she was allegedly the favourite writer of the Queen
and certainly one of the best-selling poets of her day. She died young, leaving only three short collections of her poetry.
ABJ
became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter
, Emily Faithfull
, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
. She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both...
Friends, Associates
Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter
Anthologization
Julia Kavanagh
JK
contributed essays and stories throughout her career to at least nine periodicals in Britain and one in the USA. In August 1846 she wrote offering work of various kinds to Chambers's Journal....
Family and Intimate relationships
Annie Keary
One of these night-school students later emigrated to work for a business firm in the USA.
Keary, Annie. Letters of Annie Keary. Editor Keary, Eliza, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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Of all AK
's students, rich or poor, she was the one who loved learning most...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Ann Kelty
Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...
Intertextuality and Influence
Edna Lyall
In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning
's Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
Lyall, Edna. The Autobiography of a Slander. Longmans, Green and Co.
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the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...
Anthologization
Anne Ogle
As Ashford Owen, AO
contributed An Old Woman's Story to Adelaide Procter
's Victoria Regia.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Friends, Associates
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Beginning in 1854, BRP
and Barbara Leigh Smith participated in a society called the Portfolio Club in order to exhibit and share comment on their own and other women's artistic and literary creations. Other members...
politics
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Besides editing the English Woman's Journal, BRP
collaborated in 1859 with other group members Emily Faithfull
and Adelaide Procter
to found the Victoria Press
(established on 25 March 1860).
Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 187
She also...
Cultural formation
Bessie Rayner Parkes
She had become seriously interested in Secularism in 1857. Now, after attending the Congress for the Advancement of Social Science in Dublin in 1861, she became interested in the work of the Irish Sisters of Mercy
Friends, Associates
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Adelaide Procter
(a close friend of BRP
after her conversion, as were Sarah Atkinson
and Cardinal Manning
) died of tuberculosis on 2 February 1864, the year before BRP
's father also died. Parkes was...
Textual Features
Bessie Rayner Parkes
This volume contains almost seventy poems, ten of which are written and addressed to BRP
's contemporaries. Much of her writing is self-deprecating and she consistently praises other writers as being superior to herself. In...
Occupation
Coventry Patmore
With help from his friends Adelaide Procter
and Richard Monckton Milnes
, CP
was taken on as a supernumerary assistant in the department of printed books at the British Museum
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
