Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was born on 22 May 1870 at Lissadell House, the great neo-classical estate overlooking Sligo Bay in north-west Ireland, and died in London on 30 June 1926. She was a poet, dramatist, essayist, spiritual seeker, trade-union ally, campaigner for women’s suffrage, and one half of one of the most enduring partnerships in the history of British and Irish reform. Her name was long overshadowed b…
“There is a vista before us of a Spiritual progress which far transcends all political matters. It is the abolition of the ‘manly’ and the ‘womanly.’ Will you not help to sweep them into the museum of antiques?”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
William Brighty Rands was born on 24 December 1823, in Chelsea, then a district on the western edge of London and already a place where commerce, domestic life, artistic ambition, and metropolitan poverty met in close quarters. He died on 23 April 1882, having lived only fifty-eight years, and his name is now far less familiar than the names of several Victorian writers whose work has dated more severely. Yet Rands o…
“In fact, the New Fiction is a product for which the canons were not ready.”
Neighbourhood:
Children's Verse, Light Verse Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Wonder, Irony
