Gill Gregory

Procter's poem To M.M.H., which later appeared as A Retrospect, expresses her feelings for her friend: Some gentle spirit—Love I thought—
Built many a shrine of pain;
Though each false Idol fell to...

This poem was highly regarded by Bessie Rayner Parkes . Critic Gill Gregory reads it as a powerful critique of Keble 's authoritative voice and an unsettling of key Tractarian tenets, stemming from AP 's revisionary poetics.

Critic Gill Gregory argues that this poem is part of a series, with A Woman's Answer (a title Procter adopted from Robert Browning ) and A Woman's Last Word, in which she responds to...

Notwithstanding, or indeed perhaps because of, her popularity in the Victorian period, AP 's critical reputation foundered for most of the twentieth century. A study in German by Ferdinand Janku (Adelaide Anne Procter: ihr...

Almost all the poems she published in the first few years of her association with Household Words were, according to Gill Gregory , conventional, mourning, didactic and devotional lyrics. One of these, Friend Sorrow...

Her mother encouraged her love of poetry, before AP could write, by making for her daughter a little album into which she copied her favourite passages. Dickens commented: It looks as if she had carried...