Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864)
Autore di The poems of Adelaide A. Procter.
Sull'Autore
Opere di Adelaide Anne Procter
The Lost Chord 1 copia
The Poems Of Adelaide A. Procter Complete Edition With An Introduction By Charles Dickens (1880) 1 copia
Silver Linings 1 copia
Opere correlate
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 77 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Procter, Adelaide Anne
- Altri nomi
- Cornwall, Barry (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1825-10-30
- Data di morte
- 1864-02-02
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Queen's College, London, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- poet
philanthropist - Relazioni
- Proctor, Bryan Waller (father)
- Organizzazioni
- Langham Place Group
Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women - Breve biografia
- Adelaide Anne Procter, a favorite poet of Queen Victoria, was a daughter of Bryan Waller Proctor, who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Barry Cornwall. Her literary career began when she was a teenager; her poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later in book form. She also became a philanthropist who worked on behalf of a number of causes, most prominently unemployed women and the homeless. She was actively involved with feminist groups. Her conversion to the Roman Catholic faith appears to have strongly influenced her poetry, which often concerned subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women.
Many of her poems were set to music and made into hymns, and were published in the USA and Germany as well as in England. She wrote the words to "A Lost Chord," set to music by Arthur Sullivan. Miss Procter suffered from ill health and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 93
- Popolarità
- #200,859
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 15
- Preferito da
- 2
Dickens again asked his contributors to provide him with stories that exemplified the spirit of Christmas, rather than being specifically set at Chritmastime. So, the stories and poems are about family ties, affection, overcoming adversity, and murder and ghosts!
There are some good tales here, notably The Old Lady's Story by Eliza Lynn Linton and The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell, but overall this collection is not quite as strong as the first volume, A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. Nonetheless, a nice Yuletide read.… (altro)