Name/TitleLegends and Lyrics
MakerProctor, Adelaide Anne
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectSmall hardback book titled 'Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses: First Series' by Adelaide Anne Proctor, with an introduction by Charles Dickens. First published in May 1858.
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Medium and MaterialsOrganic, board and paper
MeasurementsH: 170 x W: 116 x D: 20 mm
Date Made1892
Period19th century
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesGeorge Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London
PublisherGeorge Bell & Sons
Publication Date1892
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Anne_Procter:
Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Few 20th-century critics have discussed her work because of Procter's religious beliefs, but her poetry is beginning to be re-evaluated as showing technical skill. Procter never married. Her health suffered, possibly due to overwork, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 [continues].
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's writing & literature
Subject and Association Keywordspoetry & verse
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2011-11-13
Spine LabelLEGENDS AND LYRICS ~ ADELAIDE PROCTOR ~ GEO. BELL & SONS
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved