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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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.... |
Anthologization | Anne Ogle | As Ashford Owen, AO
contributed An Old Woman's Story to Adelaide Procter
's Victoria Regia. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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 |
death | Matilda Hays | Until recently scholars have assumed that she died about thirty years earlier than was in fact the case. Her local obituary mentioned her friendship with Procter
but did not mention that she was a writer. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Dedications | Emily Faithfull | The most important publication of the Victoria Press
to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter
and dedicated by permission to... |
Education | Hélène Barcynska | At six years old, Marguerite Jervis was sent to a small private school at Herne Bay in Kent. She was the youngest girl there, and so naughty that the headmistress suggested a boarding school... |
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. Keary, ElizaEditor , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1883. 7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | Through her involvement with the Langham Place Group, MH
met and became a friend of Adelaide Procter
. In 1858 Procter dedicated the First Series of Legends and Lyrics to Hays, using a quotation from... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
's other prominent women friends included Adelaide Procter
, Anna Mary Howitt
(Mary
's daughter), and Anna Brownell Jameson
. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 58, 71 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | By 1852, EG
's strong nucleus of important female friends included Barbara Leigh Smith
, Bessie Parkes
, Adelaide Procter
, Octavia
and Miranda Hill
, and Harriet Martineau
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 311 |
Friends, Associates | Jessie Boucherett | Helen Blackburn
recounts that JB
met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and Adelaide Procter
after casually picking up a copy of the English Woman's Journal at a railway station. She was so impressed with the contents... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Hardy | His many literary acquaintances in London included Sir Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, and Adelaide Procter
. Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978. 274-5, 278 |
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... |
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... |
Timeline
March 1858
The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine on the theory and practice of organised feminism, began publication in London, with financial support from Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and others, under the editorship of...
7 July 1859
The first meeting of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
was held in London; founding members included Anna Jameson
, Emily Faithfull
, Jessie Boucherett
, Adelaide Procter
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, Isa Craig
, and Sarah Lewin
.
Late 1859
The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.
1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
August 1864
The English Woman's Journal, a practical and theoretical source of organized feminism from London, merged into The Alexandra Magazine and English Woman's Journal.