Nora Hopper Chesson, born Nora Hopper on 2 January 1871 in Exeter, England, and dead on 14 April 1906, belongs to that compelling company of poets whose work has remained more vivid than their public reputation. Her life was brief, her published oeuvre relatively small, and the surviving record of her private circumstances incomplete. Yet the poems she left behind possess a distinctive pressure and atmosphere: they a…
“English Christmas-keepers would do well to borrow from their neighbours in the Netherlands and in Austria-Hungary.”
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Symbolist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness
On March 18, 1875, in the historic Hempstead House in New London, Connecticut, Anna Hempstead Branch was born into a world of deep New England roots and literary tradition. The younger of two children, she arrived into a family where words mattered, where literature breathed through the rooms of an ancestral home that had sheltered Hempsteads since 1640. Her father, John Locke Branch, practiced law with quiet distinc…
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Hymn Writers, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Fear, Despair, Wonder
