Dollie Radford (1858-1920). Woodcut by Robert Bryden, from Poets of the Younger Generation, 1902. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Dollie Radford (December 3, 1858 - February 7, 1920) was an English poet.[1]
Life[]
Radford was born Caroline Maitland in London, and grew up in that city, where her father worked as a tailor.[2]
Her mother died when Caroline was 10.[2]
She was educated at Queen's College, London.[2]
In 1880 she met poet Ernest Radford in the library of the British Museum; the couple married in 1883.[2] They had 3 children, Hester, Margaret, and Maitland.[1] Her friends included Eleanor Marx (whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by Karl Marx) and Amy Levy.
Publications[]
Dollie Radford, Songs for Somebody, 1893. Courtesy Internet Archive.
Poetry[]
- A Light Load. London: Elkin Mathews, 1891.
- Songs, and other verses. London: John Lane; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1895.
- One Way of Love: An Idyll. London: T. Fisher Unvwin, 1898.
- A Ballad of Victory and other poems. London: Alston Rivers, 1907.
- Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1910.
Short fiction[]
- The Poet's Larder, and other stories. Bristol, UK: J.W. Arrowsmith / London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamiliton, Kent & Co., 1900.
Juvenile[]
- Songs for Somebody (illustrated by Gertrude Bradley). London: David Nutt, 1893.
- Good Night. London: David Nutt, 1895.
- Sea-Thrift: A fairy tale (illustrated by Gertrude Bradley). London: Alexander Moring / De La More Press, 1904.
- The Young Gardeners' Kalendar. London: De La More Press, 1904
- also published as The Young Gardener's Year (in verse). London: De La More Press, 1908.
- In Summer Time: A little boy's dream. Petersfield, Harting, Hampshire, UK: Pear Tree Press, 1905.
- Shadow Rabbit. London: Green Sheaf, 1906.
- The Goose Girl at the Well: Adapted from the version in the Household stories of The Brothers Grimm: A fairy play. London: Elkin Mathews, [1906?]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Fonds[]
- Finding Aid to the Dollie Radford Papers, Online Archive of California
- Dollie Radford (1858-1920) at the National Archives
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Dollie Radford (1858-1920), Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto, UToronto.ca, Web, Dec. 14, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 David Latham, Dollie Radford (1858-1920), The Yellow Nineties Online (edited by Dennis Dennisoff & Lorraine Jansen Kooistra). Web, Feb. 27, 2017.
- ↑ Search results = au:Dollie Radford, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 28, 2013.
External links[]
- Poems
- 3 poems by Radford: "December," "A November Rose," "June"
- Radford, Dollie (1858-1920) (3 poems) at Representative Poetry Online
- Dollie Radford in A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: "Ah! Bring it Not," "A Model," "If All the World," "My Little Dear," "October"
- Dollie Radford at Poetry Nook (2 poems)
- Dollie Radford at PoemHunter (121 poems)
- Dollie Radford at AllPoetry (123 poems)
- Books
- Books
- Dollie Radford at Amazon.com
- About
- Dollie Radford in the Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
- Critical and Biographical Essay by Arthur Symons
- Dollie Radford (1858-1920) in The Yellow Nineties Online
- Naturally Radical: The subversive politics of Dollie Radford", Victorian Poetry
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