Revised List May 2013

FEMALE POETS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

As my research has progressed, it has become very clear that there were far more women who wrote poetry during the 1914 - 1918 period than the few mentioned in many of the anthologies compiled so far.   I feel strongly that their voices deserve to be heard.

REVISED LIST MAY 2013

BRITAIN

Margot Robert ADAMSON

Georgette AGNEW

Marian ALLEN
Jessie Annie ANDERSON (b. 1861 - Scottish

Lilian M. ANDERSON
Marion ANGUS (1866 - 1946) - Scottish

Edith BAGNOLD (27th October 1889 - 31st March 1981) (Nurse then driver in France)

Rachel BATES (Wirral)

Dorothy Julie BAYNES
Mary BEAZLEY

Madeline Ida BEDFORD

Janet BEGBIE

Maud Anna BELL (Serbian Relief Fund)

Frances BELLERBY (1899 – 1975)

Stella BENSON (1892 - 1933)

Matilda BETHAM-EDWARDS

Nora BOMFORD
Mary BOOTH 

Lilian BOWES LYON (1895 - 1949)

Mary Elizabeth BOYLE (brother killed in opening days of the War)

Catherine BRIDSON (Wirral)

Beatrix BRICE MILLER (d. c. 1958) - helper with the BEF in 1914

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
Frances A. CHESTERTON (1869 - 1938)

Mary  CHOLMONDELEY (niece of Stella Benson) (8.6.1859 – 15.07.1925) (worked as a clerk in Carlton House Terrace Hospital)

Agatha CHRISTIE (nee Miller) (1890 – 1976 VAD Torquay)

Isabel C. CLARKE (born Plymouth)

Alice E. COLLINGE (1869 – 1960)

Mary Gabrielle COLLINS

Frances CORNFORD (1886 – 1960)
Margaret CROPPER

Nancy CUNARD (1896 - 1965)

Elizabeth DARYUSH (Daughter of Robert Bridges) (1887 - 1976)

Helena DEREZINSKA (Lancashire)

Helen DIRCKS

Eva DOBELL (1867 - 1963) (Niece of poet Sydney Dobell) (Nurse)
Sarah DOUDNEY (1841 - 1926)

O. DOUGLAS (Pen name of Anna Masterfar BUCHAN - John Buchan's sister)

Agnes E. DREY (Lancashire)

Helen Parry EDEN (1885 -

Agnes FALCONER

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
Dorothy Frances GURNEY (1858 - 1932)

Cicely HAMILTON (1872 - 1952) (organised nursing care; joined Army Aux. entertained troops)

Helen HAMILTON

Isabel WESTCOTT HARPER

Ada May HARRISON

Agnes CROZIER HERBERTSON

May HERSHEL-CLARKE

Ethel M. HEWITT

Constance HOLLAR

Winifred HOLTBY (Nursed in France)

Theresa HOOLEY

Violet HUNT
Isobel W. HUTCHISON

Mildred HUXLEY

Catherine M. JACKSON (Wirral)
Violet JACOB ( 1863 - 1947 Born Violet Kennedy-Erskine in Scotland m. Major Arthur Jacob of 20th Hussars - son killed on the Somme 1916)

Storm JAMESON

Elinor JENKINS (1893 - 1920)

Edith A. KAHIA (Lancashire)

Anna GORDON KEOWN

Annie L. KNOWLES (Lancashire)

Margery LAWRENCE

Winifred M. LETTS (1882 - 1972)

Olive E. LINDS

Geraldine E. LYSTER (Lancashire)

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 -
Sophie MILLER
Frances Evelyn MILLETT

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

Florence OVERTON (Lancashire)

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)
Irene R. POTTER
Mary PRALL

Marjorie PRATT

Louise PRIOR

Inez QUILTER 

Dollie RADFORD (nee Maitland) (1858 – 1920)

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)

Edith HOPE-SCOTT (Lancashire)

Fredegond SHOVE (nee MAITLAND) (1889 – 1949)

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
Suzanne STONE

Marie Carmichael STOPES (1880 - 1954) (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)
Mary SYMON (Scottish)

Emily HOWSON TAYLOR (1879 -
Gwen TAYLOR 
Rachel Annand TAYLOR (1876 - 1960)
Ruth TAYLOR 
Judith BRUNDRETT-TWESDALE
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

Sylvia TOWNSEND WARNER (1893 -   ) Worked in Munitions Factory

Mary WEBB (1881 - 1927 b. Leighton, nr. Wrekin, Shropshire; educated Southport)

Mary Morison WEBSTER

M. Winifred WEDGWOOD (VAD)

Dorothy WELLESLEY (1889 - 1956) 

Catherine DURNING WHETHAM (Devon)

Lucy WHITMELL

Anna WICKHAM (1884 - 1947)

Carolyn Crosby WILSON

Marjorie WILSON

Margaret L. WOODS

Elizabeth WORDSWORTH (1840 - 1932)

AMERICAN

Zoe AKINS (1886 - 1958)
Margaret Steele ANDERSON (1867 - 1921)

Karle Wilson BAKER (1878 - 1960)
Djuna BARNES (1892 - 1982)
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")
Louise BOGAN (1897 - 1970)

Mary BORDEN (lived in England.  Mobile hospital in France)

Amelia Josephine BURR (1878 - 1968)

Nancy CAMPBELL

Grace ELLERHY CHANNING (1862 - 1937; France and Italy as a War Correspondent)
Florence van Leer Earle Nicholson COATES (1850 - 1927)

Helen Gray CONE (1859 - 1934)

Grace Hazard CONKLING (1878 - 1958)
Adelaide CRAPSEY

Charlotte Holmes CRAWFORD

Olive TILFORD DARGAN

Mary Carolyn DAVIES

Hilda Dolittle or H.D. (1886 - 1961)

Vita DUTTON-SCUDDER (1861 - 1954)

Gabrielle ELLIOTT (American Fund for French Wounded; Nursing Committee for the Council of National Defence)

S. Gertrude FORD

Lena GILBERT BROWN FORD

Theodosia GARRISON
Charlotte Perkins GILMAN (1860 - 1935)

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)

Alice Corbin HENDERSON (1881 - 1949)
Katherine HOWARD

Amy LOWELL (1874 - 1925)

Florence RIPLEY MASTIN

Moina BELLE MICHAEL (The Poppy Lady)

Ruth Comfort MITCHELL

Edna St. Vincent MILLAY

Harriet MONROE  (Founded and edited "Poetry" the first American poetry magazine) 

Marianne MOORE (1887 - 1972)
Aline MURRAY (1888 - 1941)

Grace Fallow NORTON (1876 - 1962)

Dorothy PARKER (1893 - 1967)

Marge PIERCY

Lizette WOODWORTH REESE (1856 - 1935)
Laura E.  Howe RICHARDS (1850 - 1943)
Edith Grenstead ROCHESTER

Edith RUTTER-LEATHAM

Vida Dutton SCUDDER (1861 - 1954)
Gertrude STEIN (1874 - 1946)

Charlotte PERKINS STETSON

Sarah TEASDALE

Lesbia THANET

Edith M. THOMAS (1854 - 1925)
Rose Hartwick THORPE (1850 - 1939)

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 - nursed)

Ella WHEELER WILCOX (1850 - 1919) (To the Western Front in 1918)

Margaret WIDDAMER

Margaret ADELAIDE WILSON

AUSTRIA

*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.

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE

Rose Auslander (11.05.1901 – 03.01.1988)

AUSTRALIA

Emily BULCOCK (1877 - 1969)

Ada CAMBRIDGE A.C. (1844 - 1926)

Violet B. CRAMER

Zora CROSS (1890 - 1964)
Edith May ENGLAND (1899 - 1979)

Nellie EVANS (1883 - 1944)
May Hannay FOOT (1846 - 1918)

Mary Elizabeth FULLERTON (1868 - 1946)

Dame Mary GILMORE (1965 - 1962)
Lesbia HARFORD (1891 - 1927)

Winsome JENNINGS
Alice GORE JONES (1887 - 1961)

Marion KNOWLES

Dorothea McKELLAR
Nina MURDOCK (1890 - 1976)

Agnes ROSE-SOLEY

Ethel TURNER (1870 - 1958 - born Doncaster, England)

Elizabeth von AMIN (1866 - 1941)

BELGIAN

Marie NIZET
Alice NAHON (1896 - 1938)

BRAZILIAN
Brazil declared war on Germany on 26th October 1917

Cora Coralina (20 August 1889 – 10 April 1985)

Cecilia Meireles (7.11.1901 – 9.11.1964)

Adaligsa Nery (29.10.1905 – 7.6.1980)

 BULGARIA

Bulgaria, which at that time was still recovering from the effects of previous wars, joined WW1 on the side of the Central Powers from 15^th October 1915 when war was declared on Serbia until 30^th September 1918 when the Armistice of Thessalonica was signed.

Elisaveta BAGRYANA (1893 - 1991)

Dora GABE (1886 - 1983)

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)
Isabella WATSON (Poem about Edith Cavell)

CHILEAN 
Chile helped the Allied cause by seizing the German-owned Nitrate and Copper mines

Gabriela MISTRAL (1889 - 1957 - pen name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga)

CHINESE

China sent a large contingent of workers to help 'behind the scenes'.  They also helped clear up the aftermath.  Many of them died and they are commemorated in a special cemetery

Bing XIN

DUTCH

Agnita FEIS
Henriette ROLAND HOLST (1869 - 1952)

Augusta PEAUX (1859 - 1944)

Giza RITSCHL (1869 - 1942)

Nine van der SCHAAF (1882 - 1973)
Margo SHARTEN-ANTINK

Helene SWARTH (1859 - 1941)

Jacqueline van der WAALS (1868 - 1922)


FINLAND

Finland was part of the Russian Empire during the First World War and some of her soldiers served in the Russian Army until they declared independence on 6^th December 1917.

Katri VALA (1901 - 1944)
Edith SODERGRAN (1892 - 1923)

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

Isla FRANKE (1881 - 1938)

Claire GOLL (1890 - 1977)
Emily HENNINGS (1885 - 1948)

Elizabeth LANGASSER (1899 - 1950)

Berta LASK (

Thekla LINGEN

Lya MARA

Elizabeth PAULSEN
Nelly SACHS (1891 - 1970)

Else LASKER SCHULER 

HEBREW

Rachel BLUWSTEIN (Rachel ISRAEL) (1890 - 1931)

INDIAN

Nalini Bala DEVI (1898 - 1977)

Sarojini NAIDU (1879 - 1949)

IRISH

Jane BARLOW (1857 - 1917)

Eva GORE BOOTH
Elizabeth BOWEN (Downe House Pupil WW1) (1899 - 1973)

Kathleen KNOX

May O'ROURKE (Became Secretary to Thomas Hardy in 1923)

Dora SIGERSON SHORTER (1866 - 1918)

Katharine TYNAN (1861 - 1931)

Helen WADDELL

ITALIAN
Italy declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 23rd May 1915 and on Germany on 29th August 1916.

Sibilla ALERAMO (1876 - 1960)
Elena CANINO (1898 - 1939)
Amalia GUGLIELMINETTI
Ada NEGRI

JAPANESE

Fukao SUMAKO (1893 - 1974)

Akiko YOSANO (1878 - 1942)

NEW ZEALAND

Mary Ursula BETHELL (1874 - 19450
Eileen DUGGAN (1894 - 1972)

Katherine MANSFIELD (1888 - 1923)

POLISH

Maria PAWLIKOWSKA-JASNORZEWSKA (24.11.1891 Krakow – 09.07 1945 Manchester)
Magdalena SAMOZWANIEL (1894 - 1972)

PORTUGUESE 
Portugal is England's oldest ally - dating back to the time of John O'Gaunt whose daughter married the King of Portugal bringing tea and marmalade to England.  Portugal sent troops, equipment and medial personnel to help the Allies during WW1

Fernanda de CASTRO

Florbela ESPANCA

Marta MESQUITA DE CAMARA

Virginia VITORINO

ROMANIAN
Romania had been part of the Ottoman Empire but after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 - 1878, they declared independence and joined Russia

Izabela SADOVEANU-EVAN (24.02.1870 – 06.08.1941)

Elena VACARESCU (21.9.1864 Bucharest – 17.02.1947 Paris)

Elizabeth of WIED (1843 - 1916) (Married King Carol I of Roumania)

RUSSIAN

Anna AKHMATOVA (1889 -1966 from the Ukraine)
Sophia PARNOK (1885 - 1933)
Marina TSVETAEVA (1892 - 1941)

SERBIAN

Jelena DIMITRIJEVIC (1862 - 1945)
Danica MARKOVIC (1879 - 1932)

Jelena SPIRIDONOVIC SAVIC (1890 – 974)

SOUTH AFRICAN

Edith L.M. KING (1871 - 1962)


SWEDEN

Elsa BESKOW (1874 - 1953)

Acknowledgements - 18th April 2013

I would like to thank the following people who have kindly replied to my requests for information:

Professor G. Williams of Bangor University, Wales

Professor Dr. Shaun Viljoen from Stellenbosch University, South Africa

The Riverside Writers Group from the Wirral Peninsular - http://riversidewriterswestkirby.blogspot.co.uk/p/anthology-2013.html

Jim Bennett of The Poetry Kit website - www.poetrykit.org

Elaine - who has helped me so much from Day One - from the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh for her invaluable suggestions and continued support and encouragement.

Erica from the BHSOGS for her help and encouragement and

Mrs K. Holyhead for letting me see her Grandmother's wonderful notebook full of handwritten poems during the 1914 - 1918 period.

As each day goes by, I realise that I appear to be further away from my goal than I was when I started because there is so much material to sift through.

My sincere thanks to everyone who has contacted me.

Lucy London
18th April 2013

Acknowledgements - 9th April 2013

Here we are in April and still no sign of Spring!  I have just noticed that a typographical error sneaked into my Revised List of Poets on 20th February 2013 - horrors!   Dorothy L. Sayers - her name appeared without the 'S'. . .  I have now put this right.   I have, however, noticed that my Dear Computer alters things without my consent.   Ah the wonders of modern technology - what did we do without it?

Which brings me back to those amazing women - many of whom went to help out on the Western Front and in other theatres of War during 1914 - 1918.  Without Jumbo Jets and luxury cruise liners, without mobile phones and those little plastic containers for beauty products, etc., wearing long skirts and high button boots in the most atrocious of conditions and with very, very little water - how did they do what they did?   I salute them all.

I am working on a further revised list which will be available shortly.

I would like to thank everyone who has been in touch with me - I feel very lucky indeed to have so much support.

In particular I am very grateful to the following people who contacted me:

Seona Ford, Chair of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society - Seona had a letter printed in "The Times" on Monday, 31st March 2013 on the subject of women poets of the First World War.   The link to the Dorothy L. Sayers website is  www.sayers.org.uk - definitely a 'must see'.   Seona tells me the Society has around 500 members world wide.

Christen E. Runge 

Assistant Curator, Art Collection 

Special Collections Research Center, Lauinger Library 

Georgetown University 

Link:  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/

Matt Jacobsen of 

OldMagazineArticles.com - another fantastic website and source of information:

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/articles


Thanks to Matt I have been able to find the answers to several questions that have been concerning me recently about the early days of WW1.

and

Emma a student from Amsterdam who has been very supportive indeed.   Best wishes with your project Emma - I look forward to reading it.

Thank you all for your support and suggestions.

Best Wishes from
Lucy
9th April 2013

Update and acknowledgements

I am very grateful to everyone who has contacted me.   I would like to thank 'The Times' newspaper for printing my letter about the project on Saturday, 30th March 2013 - there were some very good ideas in the other letters in the feature as well, particularly from Norman Isaacs, Nigel Hawkins and Jim Dixon.

Please forgive me if I do not reply to every e-mail personally - I have been overwhelmed by the response - but I do thank you very much indeed for contacting me and for your suggestions.   I will work through them and hope to include many of them in this project.

I am especially indebted to Mrs J. Kingsland, the Archivist at Downe School, to whom I wrote after reading "Peter Pan's First XI" by Kevin Telfer, which was recommended to me by poet and law Professor Stephen J. Cribari from Minnesota.   Mrs Kingsland very kindly searched the Archives at Downe House and found nine poems written by pupils who were at Downe House school during 1914 - 1918, including one by Audrey Lucas, daughter of E.V. Lucas.  I plan to include all of these as they are outstanding and very thought-provoking.

I am currently working through the many regional poems edited and published by S. Fowler Wright - for these poems I must thank Sheena Gaskell of the Birkenhead Reference Library, who suggested "Poets of Merseyside" which was published by SFW in 1923.

Jim Dixon's suggestion was Fredegond Shove (nee Maitland) 1889 - 1949 and through researching Fredegond, I discovered American poets Druna Barnes and Adelaide Crapsey.

I hope to be able to up-date my list of poets in the not too distant future.

Lucy London

Appeal For Information About May Sinclair

Listen to Lucy talking about May Sinclair on BBC Radio Mersey side by clicking here now:

Lucy interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside, lunchtime Tuesday, 19th March 2013

You may recall that I have been searching for biographical information about the following poets:

Rachael BATES
Catherine BRIDSON
Catherine M. JACKSON

whose work was published in the anthology 'Poets of Merseyside', edited by S. Fowler Wright and published by Merton Press in 1923.  

I contacted the media of Merseyside and BBC Radio Merseyside kindly invited me to broadcast live during the lunch-time programme on Tuesday, 19th March 2013.  The show host, Roger Phillips, asked some interesting questions and gave me plenty of time to explain my project as well make enquiries about the three poets from Merseyside. 

You can listen to the interview by clicking on the icon below:



 He also asked about May Sinclair who is featured in the Female Poets of the First World War Exhibition currently running at the Wilfred Owen Story museum at 34 Argyle Street, Birkenhead, Wirral CH41 6AE (Tuesdays - Fridays 11 am - 2pm).

May was born in Rock Ferry on the Wirral and is credited with coming up with the term 'stream of consciousness' which she used to describe the work of a fellow poet Dorothy M. Richardson when she reviewed Dorothy's book 'Pointed Roofs' (1915).   May wrote in the modernist magazine 'The Egoist', published in 1915.

Lucy London

Taster Exhibition at the Art Deco Cafe, Stanley Park, Blackpool, Monday, 18th March 2013

Thank you to everyone who came along on Monday afternoon to attend the Taster Exhibition of Female War Poets and Inspirational Women.

Monday's Exhibition featured the following poets:  Margaret Rowntree (from Fleetwood), May Sinclair, Mary Webb, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Elsa Lasker-Schuler, Anna Akmatova, Florbela Espanca, Lena Guilbert Ford, Gabriela Mistral, Jean Blewett, Moina Belle Michael, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Bing Xin and Akiko Yosano.

Inspirational Women:  Mary Riter Hamilton (artist), Inez Milholland (journalist), Gertrude Bell (writer), Flora Sandes (soldier), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (soldier) and Milunka Savic (soldier).

The Art Deco Café in Stanley Park Blackpool is a delightful setting for any event but was particularly suitable for this exhibition.  

 April Moon, the Acoustic Duo from Canada currently in Southport to write and record songs, entertained with some of their songs as well as covers.  They also sang one of Lucy and Paul's songs 'War Graves' and Jaime read out two poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and one by Mona Belle Michael.

Feedback from the Exhibition was very positive and I promised to let everyone know when I complete the project and publish the book and CD.

In the meantime I shall continue my research to find as many poets from as many countries as possible.  

The next scheduled exhibition will be at the Ace Centre in Nelson, East Lancashire in August 2013.  Full details will be published shortly.

Lucy London,  March 2013