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
Alice Meynell, born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson on 11 October 1847 and dead on 27 November 1922, was one of the most distinctive English writers to work across the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. A poet of exquisite compression, an essayist of alert and sensuous intelligence, a critic, editor, Catholic public intellectual, and campaigner for women’s suffrage, she made a literary identity that cannot be r…
“The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Tenderness
