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.
By 1861 MH
was a partner in the Victoria Press
. Her involvement, however, was short-lived, and she never invested any funds in the press.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
52, 238n10
By 1860 rumours were apparently circulating about her...
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/.
politics
Emily Faithfull
By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett
suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this...
politics
Anna Brownell Jameson
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...
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
232n1
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
“Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, p. 8.
Though all...
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...
Author summary
Matilda Hays
Matilda Hays
was a novelist, translator of George Sand
, editor, and contributor to periodicals. Her work spanned many genres and a variety of topics related to women's work and opportunities. One of her two...
Publishing
Anna Mary Howitt
During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH
wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion...
Reception
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
During a visit to England EWW
was honoured by her London publishers, Gay and Hancock
, with a luncheon of sixty men—publishers, editors, bookmen of all kinds, newspaper men, and some invited guests from other...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It contained the contents of the previous volumes, a new translation of Æschylus
's Prometheus Bound, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, and further sonnets. These including sonnets on her sisters, her dog...
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...
Textual Production
Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
100
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
Textual Production
Agnes Giberne
An edition published by James Nisbet
ten years later omits or from the title and spells Priorsthorpe with an e.
The first version of the title is that given in the British Library Catalogue...
Another biographical project, never fulfilled, grew out of Christina Rossetti
's idea that AMH
would be a better person than herself to write a study of Adelaide Procter
.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.