May Probyn
Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn, known as May Probyn (12 April 1856 – 29 March 1909) was an English poet, one of a group of lively and somewhat political British fin de siècle poets.[1] She published a novel in 1878, and became a Catholic convert in the following decade.[2]
Thomas Westwood the fishing writer was a friend.[3] Probyn is buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Mortlake.[4]
Works
- Once! Twice! Thrice! and Away! A Novel. (1878).
- Robert Tresilian. A Story (1880)
- Who Killed Cock Robin? (1880)
- Poems (1881)
- A Ballad of the Road, and Other Poems (1883.)
Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.[5]
References
- ^ Gail Marshall (2 August 2007). The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 234–5. ISBN 978-0-521-85063-6.
- ^ Christine L. Krueger (1 January 2009). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries. Infobase Publishing. pp. 277–. ISBN 978-1-4381-0870-4.
- ^ Dr Fabienne Moine (28 November 2015). Women Poets in the Victorian Era: Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4724-6477-4.
- ^ Probyn, May
- ^ Publicappeal.org at www.publicappeal.org
- "May Probyn", in William B. Thesing, Victorian Women Poets, 1998. Volume 199 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
External links
- Works by or about May Probyn at the Internet Archive
- Works by May Probyn at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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