It is always exciting to find another poet and browsing through a book recently, see left, I discovered that Mabel Goode, who kept a war diary, also wrote poetry. On pages 160 - 161 of this wonderful book
about Mabel's WW1 diary, you will find some of Mabel's
First World War Poetry.
Mabel was born on 27th October 1872 and,
according to her Great-Great Nephew who edited her WW1 diary, Mabel was brought
up by her Step-Mother because her parents died before her tenth birthday.
The family lived in Germany from 1881 –
1887 and Mabel went to the Slade School of Art on her return from Germany. During the Second World War she lived in
Ulverston in the Lake District.
Ulverston was in Lancashire at that time. Mabel died in 1954.
"The Lengthening War: The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode" Edited by Michael Goode with a Foreword by Sir Chris Clark. Published by Pen & Sword (Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, UK, in 2016). https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/
I am hoping to find out more about Mabel soon.
