Rosamond Langbridge

Rosamond Langbrige (1880-1964). Courtesy Ancestry.com.

Rosamond Grant Langbridge (1880 - 2 July 1964) was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright.

Life

Langbridge was born at Glenalla, co. Donegal, Ireland, the daughter of Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a poet (The Scales of Heaven), and playwright (The Only Way). She was brought up and educated in Limerick, where her father was rector of St. John's until resigning due to ill-health in 1921.

She married writer J.S. Fletcher, with whom she had a child. She contributed to newspapers such as the Manchester Guardian and the Saturday Westminster, and others. She died at Mersea in Essex.

Publications

Poetry

• The White Moth, and other poems. London: G.G. Harrap, 1932.

Plays

• The Spell

Novels

• The Flame and the Flood. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.
• The Third Experiment. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904.
• The Ambush of Young Days. London: Duckworth, 1906.
• The Stars Beyond. London: 1907.
• Imperial Richenda: A fantastic comedy. London: A. Rivers, 1908.
• The Land of the Ever Young. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / New York: Macmillan, 1920.
• The Single Eye. London: Hutchinson, 1924.
• The Golden Egg. London: John Long, 1927.

Short fiction

• The Green Banks of Shannon. London: W. Collins, 1929.

Non-fiction

• Charlotte Brontë: A psychological study. London: Heinemann, 1929; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

Poems by Rosamond Langbridge

1. The Gentle Housewife

See also

• List of Irish poets

External links

• Langbridge in Poetry: A magazine of verse, 1912-1922: "The White Moth," "The Gentle Housewife"

Prose

• "Backstairs of the Mind"

About

• Rosamond Langbridge in the New Ulster Biography
• Rosamond Langbridge at Ricorso.net