While still a student CN
was winning awards for her science essays: the Paxton prize in 1885 for an essay on geology, and in 1887 Mason College
's Heslop gold medal for one on Induction...
Reception
Constance Naden
The Constance Naden Medal was still being awarded at the University of Birmingham
, where there is also a bust of the poet and room named for her, into the twenty-first century.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Textual Production
Constance Naden
CN
had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins
, who later...
Textual Production
G. B. Stern
GBS
did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell, 1944.
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The major collection of her papers at Boston University
includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...