Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.
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Friends, Associates | May Kendall | MK
began publishing in 1885. During this decade she became friends with classical scholar and poet Andrew Lang
, who advanced her career as a writer. Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham. 60 |
Literary responses | May Kendall | The mixed reviews that greeted Songs can be attributed to a lack of backing from Lang
in advertising the book. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 122 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 122 |
Literary responses | May Kendall | Rowntree's biographer Asa Briggs
credits Kendall's affective writing with bringing Seebohm Rowntree
's The Human Needs of Labourto life; he describes her as someone who always gave loyal and devoted service. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 123 Briggs, Asa. Seebohm Rowntree. Longmans, 1961. 84 |
politics | May Kendall | During the second half of her life, from 1898, MK
gave up writing fiction to focus on social reform, a shift that culminated in the appearance of How the Labourer Lives in 1913. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 123 |
Author summary | May Kendall | May Kendall
is most notable for late-nineteenth-century poems characterized by sharp humour and sarcastic wit on topics related to evolutionary science and the new woman. Her novels employ sarcasm and irony to examine British... |
Textual Production | May Kendall | For her first work of non-fiction, How the Labourer Lives, MK
helped author and reformist Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
interview working-class familes about their nutrition and finances in Yorkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, and Berkshire. Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham. 63 |
Textual Production | May Kendall | Although not attributed to her, The Human Needs of Labour, a trenchant analysis of worker-employer relations published as by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
alone, was MK
's last full-length work. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 123 |
Textual Production | May Kendall | In the twentieth century, MK
re-focused her talents on non-fiction [and] sociological investigations with members of the Rowntree family. She first worked with John Wilhelm Rowntree
on a series of powerful essays in his York... |