Edith Alice Harper (later AW
) married Patrick Hepburn
in a small ceremony at St Margaret's Church in London.
Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 51-157.
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Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wickham
AW
and her husband Patrick Hepburn
separated, and she was forced to leave the house with her three surviving children.
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
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Anna Wickham
In 1905 Edith Harper met Patrick Hepburn
, a lawyer and amateur astronomer who made significant discoveries about the rings of Saturn.
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
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Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. 7-11.
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They were introduced by Edith's then-fiancé, William Ray
, a freelance...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wickham
When the judicial separation lapsed two years later, in 1928, the family reunited at Parliament Hill, but this was not very long before AW
's husband died.
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
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On Christmas Day 1929 Hepburn
died of...
Literary responses
Anna Wickham
The publication of AW
's Songs provoked a violent quarrel with her husband, Patrick Hepburn
, who had her committed for six weeks to an asylum for the insane.
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.