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English poet and writer
Caroline Maitland (1858–1920) was an English poet and writer. She worked under the name "Dollie Radford" after she married
Ernest Radford .
Life
Maitland was born in 1858 and in 1880 she met her future husband in the
British Museum Reading Room and they continued to meet at
Karl Marx 's house.
[1] She married
Ernest Radford in 1883, and wrote as Dollie Radford . They had three children, one being the doctor and writer Maitland Radford.
[2] Her grandchildren include the town and park planner
Ann MacEwen .
[1]
Her friends included her sister in law
Ada Wallas
[3] and the socialist
Eleanor Marx , whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by
Karl Marx , and
Amy Levy . Her papers are housed at the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at
UCLA
[4] and at the
British Library .
[5] Many of the British Library manuscripts have been digitized and can be viewed at
Europeana .
[6]
Her husband was a member of the
Rhymers' Club , but Maitland could not join because of sexual discrimination.
[7]
Works
A Light Load (1891)
Songs for Somebody (1893)
Good Night (1895)
Songs and Other Verses (1895)
One Way of Love: an Idyll (1898)
The Poet’s Larder and Other Stories (1904)
The Young Gardeners’ Kalendar (1904)
Sea-Thrift (1904)
In Summer Time (1905)
Shadow-Rabbit , with Gertrude M. Bradley (1906)
A Ballad of Victory and other poems (1907)
Poems (1910)
References
Further reading
Alford, Norman (1994), The Rhymers' Club: Poets of the Tragic Generation ,
Palgrave Macmillan ,
ISBN
978-0312123413
Brandon, Ruth (1990), The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex, and the Woman Question ,
Secker & Warburg ,
ISBN
978-0436067228
Garnett, David (1960), The Golden Echo ,
Harcourt, Brace ,
ASIN
B0000CKQUL
Kapp, Yvonne (1977),
Eleanor Marx, vol. 1 ,
Pantheon Books ,
ISBN
978-0394734569
Kapp, Yvonne (1977), Eleanor Marx, vol. 2 ,
Pantheon Books ,
ISBN
978-0394734576
Lawrence, David Herbert (1981), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence; Volume II, 1913-16 ,
Cambridge University Press ,
ISBN
978-0521231114
Lawrence, David Herbert (1981), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: Volume 3, October 1916-June 1921 ,
Cambridge University Press ,
ISBN
978-0521231121
Livesey, Ruth (2006), Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914 ,
British Academy ,
ISBN
978-0197263983
Livesey, Ruth (2006), "Dollie Radford and the Ethical Aesthetics of "Fin-de-Siecle" Poetry", Victorian Literature and Culture , vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 495–517,
doi :
10.1017/S1060150306051291 ,
S2CID
162470742
Lyon Mix, Katherine (1960), A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors ,
University Press of Kansas ,
ASIN
B0000CKQUL
Radford, Maitland (1945), Poems by Maitland Radford: With a Memoir by Some of his Friends ,
Allen & Unwin ,
ASIN
B0006DCPFY
Richardson, LeeAnne (2000), "Naturally Radical: The Subversive Poetics of Dollie Radford", Victorian Poetry , vol. 38, no. 1 (published 2006), pp. 109–124,
doi :
10.1353/vp.2000.0008
Schaffer, Talia (2000), The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late Victorian England ,
University of Virginia Press ,
ISBN
978-0813919379
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