Augusta Webster
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Augusta Webster (30 January 1837 – 5 September 1894) born in Poole, Dorset as Julia Augusta Davies, was an English poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator.
Biography
Augusta was the daughter of
She studied Greek at home, taking a particular interest in Greek drama, and went on to study at the
Much of Webster's writing explored the condition of women, and she was a strong advocate of women's right to vote, working for the London branch of the National Committee for
During her lifetime her writing was acclaimed and she was considered by some the successor to
She died on the 5th September 1894 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. Her grave (plot no.8187), which is situated above the cuttings catacombs, has suffered badly from tree roots.
Literary works
Poetry
- Blanche Lisle: And Other Poems. 1860
- Lilian Gray. 1864
- Dramatic Studies. 1866
- A Woman Sold and Other Poems. 1867
- Portraits 1870
- A Book of Rhyme 1881
- Mother and Daughter 1895 [3]
Translations into verse
- Prometheus Bound 1866
- Medea 1868
- Yu-Pe-Ya's Lute. A Chinese Tale in English Verse. 1874
Plays
- The Auspicious Day 1874
- Disguises 1879
- In a Day 1882
- The Sentence 1887
Novels
- Lesley's Guardians 1864
- Daffodil and the Croaxaxicans: A Romance of History 1884[4]
Essays
- A Housewife's Opinions 1878 [5]
References
- ^ "Women in the Literary Marketplace". rmc.library.cornell.edu.
- ^ Papaioannou, Nicole. But They Would Not Teach Her to Play': Child Heroines, Fantasy, and the Victorian Debate on Female Education (Master's thesis). Montclair State University: Montclair, NJ
- ^ Published after her death by William Michael Rossetti as Mother & Daughter. An uncompleted sonnet-sequence .. With an introductory note by W.M. Rossetti. To which are added Seven, her only other, Sonnets. London, Macmillan & Co.
- ^ "Daffodil and the Croäxaxicans: a Romance of History ". webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ Webster advocated woman's suffrage and offered her thoughts on topics relevant to married women in this collection of essays. Crawford, p.703
Sources
- Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Women's and gender history. London: Routledge, 2006. googlebooks Accessed 27 September 2008
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
External links
- Works by Augusta Webster at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)