My grateful and continued thanks to The University of Toronto, The Gallipoli Association, The Cross and Cockade and Emma from Amsterdam for their wonderful assistance with my project.
I am busy researching at the moment.
More soon.
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Greetings and Thanks
I have had many helpful and interesting e-mails and would like to thank everyone who has been in touch.
Yoshihiko Nakanishi from Japan - who suggested a Japanese poet - thank you very much indeed.
Les Voix Perdues - an A Capella singing group from Belgium, who suggested a Dutch poet - thank you all. I enjoy listening to your songs on YouTube - thank you. (Google them!)
Emma from Amsterdam - who has suggested several more Dutch poets. Emma has been very supportive and encouraging. Thank you Emma.
Matt Jacobsen from www.oldmagazinearticles.com - a fascinating website. Thank you so much for all your help Matt.
Mike Lyons - who has translated Austrian Poet Ingeborg Bachmann's poems. I am indebted to Mike for a copy of his book (with Patrick Drysdale) - "Enigma" Selected Poems", published by Ariadne Press, Riverside, California, 2011. Ingeborg was born in 1926 but her poems reflect the turmoil of the aftermath of the First World War as the world slid towards the Second.
I am particularly indebted to Stephen Cribari, a poet who teaches law at the University of Minnesota in America and the American Notre Dame Law School in London (a fantastic poet by the way). Stephen has been extremely helpful and supportive from the outset and has made many very helpful suggestions. It was following advice from Stephen that I decided to start a new section entitled "Inspirational Women of World War One" - because there are many such who did not write poetry.
Suzanne Raitt, Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, who wrote a biography about English poet and author May Sinclair, who was one of the first poets I researched.
Rianne from Fleetwood Library, Lancashire, UK
Arnold of Arnold Antiques in St. Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancashire, UK
Lisette Matano of Georgetown University Library, Washington, USA
Rich Edwards of The Ella Wheeler Wilcox Society in America.
Thank you all very much indeed - your help is invaluable and much appreciated.
I hope to bring you more news shortly.
Yoshihiko Nakanishi from Japan - who suggested a Japanese poet - thank you very much indeed.
Les Voix Perdues - an A Capella singing group from Belgium, who suggested a Dutch poet - thank you all. I enjoy listening to your songs on YouTube - thank you. (Google them!)
Emma from Amsterdam - who has suggested several more Dutch poets. Emma has been very supportive and encouraging. Thank you Emma.
Matt Jacobsen from www.oldmagazinearticles.com - a fascinating website. Thank you so much for all your help Matt.
Mike Lyons - who has translated Austrian Poet Ingeborg Bachmann's poems. I am indebted to Mike for a copy of his book (with Patrick Drysdale) - "Enigma" Selected Poems", published by Ariadne Press, Riverside, California, 2011. Ingeborg was born in 1926 but her poems reflect the turmoil of the aftermath of the First World War as the world slid towards the Second.
I am particularly indebted to Stephen Cribari, a poet who teaches law at the University of Minnesota in America and the American Notre Dame Law School in London (a fantastic poet by the way). Stephen has been extremely helpful and supportive from the outset and has made many very helpful suggestions. It was following advice from Stephen that I decided to start a new section entitled "Inspirational Women of World War One" - because there are many such who did not write poetry.
Suzanne Raitt, Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, who wrote a biography about English poet and author May Sinclair, who was one of the first poets I researched.
Rianne from Fleetwood Library, Lancashire, UK
Arnold of Arnold Antiques in St. Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancashire, UK
Lisette Matano of Georgetown University Library, Washington, USA
Rich Edwards of The Ella Wheeler Wilcox Society in America.
Thank you all very much indeed - your help is invaluable and much appreciated.
I hope to bring you more news shortly.
As promised, here is the draft revised list of poets found so far - 20th February 2013
FEMALE POETS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
REVISED LIST FEBRUARY 2013
BRITISH
Margot Robert ADAMSON
Georgette ANDREW
Marian ALLEN
Lilian M. ANDERSON
Edith BAGNOLD (27th October 1889 - 31st March 1981) (Nurse then driver in France)
Rachel BATES (Wirral)
Dorothy Julie BAYNES
Madeline Ida BEDFORD
Janet BEGBIE
Maud Anna BELL (Serbian Relief Fund)
Stella BENSON (1892 - 1933)
Matilda BETHAM-EDWARDS
Nora BOMFORD
Lilian BOWES LYON (1895 - 1949)
Mary Elizabeth BOYLE (brother killed in opening days of the War)
Catherine BRIDSON (Wirral)
Beatrice BRYCE-MILLER
Sybil BRISTOWE (brother killed early 1917)
Vera BRITTAIN (1896 - 1970) (Nurse - VAD - Brother killed in Italy)
Alice Mary BUCKTON (1867 - 1944) (Emigrated to South Africa)
C.A.L.T.
May WEDDERBURN-CANNAN (1893 - 1973) (VAD + Intelligence Service; engaged to Bevil Quiller-Couch)
Elizabeth CHANDLER FORMAN
Mary G. CHERRY
Isabel C. CLARKE (born Plymouth)
Mary Gabrielle COLLINS
Nancy CUNARD (1896 - 1965)
Elizabeth DARYUSH (Daughter of Robert Bridges) (1887 - 1976)
Helen DIRCKS
Eva DOBELL (1867 - 1963) (Niece of poet Sydney Dobell) (Nurse)
O. DOUGLAS (Pen name of Anna Masterfar BUCHAN - John Buchan's sister)
Helen Parry EDEN (1885 -
Eleanor FARJEON (London; 1881 - 1965)
V. Helen FRIEDLAENDER
Lilian GARD
Alexandra Ethelreda GRANTHAM (eldest son killed WW1)
Nora GRIFFITHS
I. GRINDLEY (Queen Mary's Army Auxilliary Corps)
Diana GURNEY
Cicely HAMILTON
Helen HAMILTON
Isabel WESTCOTT HARPER
Ada May HARRISON
Agnes CROZIER HERBERTSON
May HERSHEL-CLARKE
Ethel M. HEWITT
Winifred HOLTBY (Nursed in France)
Theresa HOOLEY
Violet HUNT
Mildred HUXLEY
Violet JACOB ( d. 1947 - Born Violet Kennedy-Erskine in Scotland m. Major Arthur Jacob of 20th Hussars)
Catherine M. JACKSON (Wirral)
Storm JAMESON
Elinor JENKINS
Anna GORDON KEOWN
Margery LAWRENCE
Winifred M. LETTS
Olive E. LINDE
Irene Rutherford McLEOD
Dame Rose MACAULAY (1881 - 1958) (Descendent of Lord Macaulay)
Helen Mackay (1891 - 1965)
Nina MACDONALD
Miss Isobel MARCHBANK
Nina MARDEL (VAD)
Alice MAUD
Charlotte MEW
Alice MEYNELL (1847 - 1922)
Olga MILLER (nee KATZIN) 1896 -
Miss G.M. MITCHELL
Lady Gertrude MOBERLEY (1860 -
Edith NESBIT (1858 - 1924) (m. BLAND)
Eileen NEWTON
The Honourable Eleanour NORTON (1881 - )
Grace FALLOW NORTON (1876 - 1926)
Moira O'NEILL (1864 - 1955)
Carola OMAN (1897 - 1978) Nurse with Red + Western Front 1916 - 1919 m. Sir Geralde Lenanton
Emily ORR
Margaret PETERSON (1883 - 1933. Pen name: Glint Green)
Ruth PITTER (7 November 1897 - 29 February 1992) (Worked at the War Office 1915 - 1917
Jessie POPE (18.3.1868 - 14.12.1941 - b, Leicester m. Babington Lenton
Dame Margaret POSTGATE COLE (1893 - 1980)
Marjorie PRATT
Louise PRIOR
Inez QUILTER (aged 11)
Dorothy Una RATCLIFFE (1887 - 1967 b. Yorkshire)
Constance Ada RENSHAW (Sheffield. 1891 - 1964)
Dorothy RICHARDSON (b. Abingdon 17th May 1873 - d. Beckenham 17th June 1957. m. Alan Odle 1917)
Ursula ROBERTS (1887 - 1975) (b. India; educated Highgate and London University) Pen name Susan MILES
Margaret E. ROWNTREE (nee Fish m. 1926) (Born Fleetwood 1899 - 1983)
Lady Margaret SACKVILLE
Vita SACKVILLE-WEST (1892 - 1962)
Dorothy L. SAYERS
Ethel SCHEFFAUER
Lady Aimee BYNG SCOTT (1868 - 1953)
May SINCLAIR (born Rock Ferry, Wirral 1865 - 1946) Nurse in France 1914
Edith SITWELL (born Scarborough 1887 - 1964)
Cicely FOX SMITH (Born Lymm, Cheshire; educated Manchester)
Stevie SMITH (1902 - 1971) "Not waving but drowning"
Freya STARK (1893 - 1993)
Dorothy Margaret STEWART
Marie Carmichael STOPES (First female science lecturer at Manchester University)
Muriel STUART ( - 1967) (Founded P.E.N. Club in 1921)
Millicent SUTHERLAND ((1867 - 1955)(Milicent Gower, Duchess of Sutherland) Nurse in France. Painted by Victor Tardieu
Joan THOMPSON (With the Red Cross to France)
Aelfrida TILLYARD (1883 -
Iris TREE (1897 - 1968) (Bloomsbury Group - friend of Nancy Cunard)
Alys FANE TROTTER (1863 - 1962) lived in South Africa during 1890s
Ada TYRELL
Evelyn UNDERHILL (worked with SSAFA and Naval Intelligence)
Alberta VICKRIDGE (b. Bradford, Educated Bradford Girls' Grammar. VAD nurse
Viviane VERNE
Mary WEBB (1881 - 1927 b. Leighton, nr. Wrekin, Shropshire; educated Southport)
Mary Morison WEBSTER
M. Winifred WEDGWOOD (VAD)
Catherine DURNING WHETHAM (Devon)
Dorothy WELLESLEY (1889 - 1956)
Lucy WHITMELL
Anna WICKHAM (1884 - 1947)
Carolyn Crosby WILSON
Marjorie WILSON
Margaret L. WOODS
Elizabeth WORDSWORTH (1840 - 1932)
AMERICAN
Natalie Clifford BARNEY (1876 - 1972; lived in Paris for over 60 years)
Pauline BARRINGTON (1876 -
Katharine Lee BATES (12.081859 - 28.03.1929: "America the Beautiful")
Mary BORDEN (lived in England. Mobile hospital in France)
Amelia Josephine BURR (1878 - 1968)
Vida Dutton SCUDDER (1861 - 1954)
Grace ELLERHY CHANNING (1862 - 1937; France and Italy as a War Correspondent)
Helen Gray CONE (1859 - 1934)
Grace Hazard CONKLING (1878 - 1958)
Alice Corbin HENDERSON (1881 - 1949)
Charlotte Holmes CRAWFORD
Olive TILFORD DARGAN
Mary Carolyn DAVIES
Hilda Dolittle or H.D. (
Gabrielle ELLIOTT (American Fund for French Wounded; Nursing Committee for the Council of National Defence)
Theodosia GARRISON
Lena GILBERT BROWN FORD
S. Gertrude FORD
Muriel Elsie GRAHAM (1909 - 1987)
Louise Imogen GUINEY (1861 - 1920)
Mary M.J. HENDERSON (Lived in UK. Went to Russia and Serbia with Elsa Inglis)
Amy LOWELL (1874 - 1925)
Moina BELLE MICHAEL (The Poppy Lady)
Ruth Comfort MITCHELL
Florence RIPLEY MASTIN
Edna St. Vincent MILLAY
Harriet MONROE
Marianne MOORE
Dorothy PARKER
Mary PIERCY
Edith Grenstead ROCHESTER
Edith RUTTER-LEATHAM
Gertrude STEIN
Charlotte PERKINS STETSON
Sarah TEASDALE
Lesbia THANET
Edith M. THOMAS (1854 - 1925)
Florence Van Leer NICHOLSON COATES (1850 - 1927)
Marie van VORST (Organised American Ambulance Corps; set up workshops in Rome)
Grace O. VANAMEE (1876 - 1946)
Mrs G.O. WARREN
Edith WHARTON (1862 - 1937) (Paris WW1)
Ella WHEELER WILCOX (1850 - 1919) (To the Western Front in 1918)
Margaret WIDDAMER
Margaret ADELAIDE WILSON
Lizette WOODWORTH REESE (1856 - 1935)
AUSTRIAN
*Ingeborg BACHMANN (1926 - 1973)
* Ingeborg is here because I have not yet found any Austrian First World War poets and by kind permission and suggestion of Mike Lyons, who translated some of Ingeborg's poems.
AUSTRALIAN
Ada CAMBRIDGE A.C. (1844 - 1926)
Violet B. CRAMER
Zora CROSS
Nellie EVANS (1883 - 1944)
Mary Elizabeth FULLERTON
Dame Mary GILMORE (1965 - 1962)
Winsome JENNINGS
Marion KNOWLES
Dorothea McKELLAR
Agnes ROSE-SOLEY
Ethel TURNER (1870 - 1958) - born Doncaster, England)
BELGIAN
Marie NIZET
CANADIAN
Jean BLEWETT (1872 - 1934)
Helene Jane COLEMAN (1860 - 1953)
Marie JOUSSAYE (1864 - 1949)
Susan Frances HARRISON (1859 - 1935)
Norah M. HOLLAND (1876 - 1925)
Isabel MACKAY (Isabel Ecclestone - 1875 - 1928)
Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY (1874 - 1942)
Marjorie L.C. PICKTHALL (1883 - 1922)
CHILEAN
Gabriela MISTRAL (1889 - 1957 - pen name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga)
DUTCH
Henriette ROLAND HOLST (1869 - 1952)
Alice NAHON (1896 - 1933)
Augusta PEAUX (1859 - 1944)
Giza RITSCHL (1869 - 1942)
Nine van der SCHAAF (1882 - 1973)
Helene SWARTH (1859 - 1941)
Jacqueline van der WAALS (1868 - 1922)
FRENCH
Marie DAUGUET (1860 - 1942)
Lise DEHARME (1898? - 1980)
Lucie DELARUE-MARDRUS (1874 - 1945- nurse in WW1)
Marguerite DURAND (Editor of La Fronde)
Rosemonde GERARD (1886 - 1953)
Miriam HARRY (Maria Rosette SHAPIRA)
Gerard d'HOUVILLE (Nom de plume - 1875 - 1963)
Amelie MURAT (1882 - 1940)
Anna de NOAILLES (1876 - 1933)
Louisa PAULIN (1888 - 1944)
Cecile PERIN (1877 - 1959)
Cecile SAUVAGE (1883 - 1927)
Colette YVER (
GERMAN
Vicky BAUM
Anna BAHR-HILDENBERG
Hilde DOMIN
Isla FRANKE (1881 - 1938)
Claire GOLL (1890 - 1977)
Elizabeth LANGASSER (1899 - 1950)
Berta LASK (
Thekla LINGEN
Lya MARA
Elizabeth PAULSEN
Else LASKER SCHULER
INDIAN
Sarojini NAIDU (1879 - 1949)
IRISH
Eva GORE BOOTH
Kathleen KNOX
May O'ROURKE (Became Secretary to Thomas Hardy in 1923)
Dora SIGERSON SHORTER (1866 - 1918)
Katherine TYNAN (1861 - 1931)
Helen WADDELL
JAPANESE
Akiko YOSANO (1878 - 1942)
NEW ZEALAND
Katherine MANSFIELD (1888 - 1923)
PORTUGUESE
Fernanda de CASTRO
Florbela ESPANCA
Marta MESQUITA DE CAMARA
Virginia VITORINO
RUSSIAN
Anna AKHMATOVA (1889 -1966 from the Ukraine)
SOUTH AFRICAN
Edith L.M. KING (1871 - 1962)
Monday, 11 February 2013
Revised List of Female Poets - February 2013
I would like to thank all those of you who have already contacted me with ideas and helpful suggestions - I am truly grateful. The list grows daily and I have also had to add another section, which I have called "Inspirational Women of World War One" - simply because there were so many.
I am currently working on the revised list and it will be published here shortly.
Lucy London
11th February 2013
I am currently working on the revised list and it will be published here shortly.
Lucy London
11th February 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
Margaret E. Fish - Fleetwood
Margaret E. Fish (Mrs Margaret Rowntree MBE)
1899 -
Margaret was born in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Both her grandfathers were Master Mariners and her Father was a Trinity House Pilot.
Margaret attended Chaucer School and Blackpool Grammar School. She later trained as
a teacher at Edge Hill College in Liverpool.
In 1926, she married Lawrence T. Rowntree from Hull.
Margaret became a teacher, teaching first at her old school and then after the death of
her husband in 1947, she taught at Tyldesley School, Blackpool.
Several of Margaret's many poems were published in "Lancashire Life" magazine and in the local press. Margaret published an anthology of her verse in 1984 under the title "Sixty years of verse".
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