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Thursday, 26 September 2024

Good news from Bairbre O’Hogan regarding her biography of Winifred Mabel Letts

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I am delighted to let you know that “Sing in the Quiet Places of my Heart”, my biography of W.M. Letts (1882-1972) - poet, war poet, dramati...
Thursday, 5 September 2024

Fredegond Cecily Shove - née Maitland (1889–1949) - British poet.

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With thanks to Dr Connie Ruzich* for reminding  me that I had not yet posted my research about Fredegond Shove here  Fredegond Cecily Maitla...
Saturday, 18 May 2024

M. Waller Paton ( - ) – Poet

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 I found this poem written by M. Waller Paton in the First World War Poetry Anthology “One Hundred of the Best Poems on the European War by ...
Saturday, 27 April 2024

Ophelia George Mather (1883 - 1972) – British schoolteacher and poet

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Ophelia George Mather was born on 1st September 1883  in Derby, Derbyshire, UK.  Her parents were George Henry Mather, a draper and tailor, ...
Saturday, 6 April 2024

Mildred Huxley (? - ? ) - possibly British - no apparent link to Aldous Huxley

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While trying to find out if the author Aldous Huxley wrote any poems during  the First World War, I discovered another female WW1 poet but c...
Tuesday, 2 April 2024

Olive L. Gillespie (1889 - ?) - Canadian. A poem written in memory of her brother Fred Learn kia in France 1918

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With thanks to Dave Barlee for sending us this information. Dave says:  “I’m doing some research on soldiers in Crouy British Cemetery and c...
Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Eloise A. Skimings (1837 - 1921) – Canadian poet, author, newspaper columnist, musician, music teacher and composer

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With thanks to Historian Lizbet Tobin for finding this poet for us   Born in Goderich, Ontario, Canada on 29th December 1837, Eloise’s paren...