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.
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...
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...
Friends, Associates
Emily Davies
When, late in life, she forbade the writing of an intimate biography but expressed her willingness that a sketch should be written, she thought such a sketch might advantageously cover both herself and Madame Bodichon...
The novel's title foregrounds GF
's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...
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.
13
the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...
Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used...
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
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Literary responses
Jean Ingelow
On 1 December 1863, Christina Rossetti
wrote to her publisher, Miss Procter
I am not afraid of; but Miss Ingelow . . . would be a formidable rival to most men, and to any woman...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter
), the book of the season.
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers.
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John Ruskin
wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
Material Conditions of Writing
Mary Angela Dickens
The journal All the Year Round, founded by MAD
's grandfather
and then edited by her father, was one of the first and most significant platforms for her short stories and serialized novels. Other...
Occupation
Emily Faithfull
This was an important year for the Victoria Press, and consequently for EF
. In addition to printing The English Woman's Journal, the Transactions of the Social Science Association, and a number of...
