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

Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.[5]

References

  1. 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.
  2. Christine L. Krueger (1 January 2009). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries. Infobase Publishing. pp. 277–. ISBN 978-1-4381-0870-4.
  3. 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.
  4. Probyn, May
  5. Publicappeal.org at www.publicappeal.org

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