Robert Bridges
organized the printing of the poems after one of MEC
's friends (a relation of his) slyly arranged for him to read one of her notebooks, Verses by Verspertilio. In a letter...
Textual Production
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
In 1905 MEC
provided the preface to The Last Poems of Richard Watson Dixon, edited by Robert Bridges
. Dixon was an obscure, religious, even visionary poet. She was a keen supporter of his...
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Augusta Webster
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the Athenæum: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.