Legends And Lyrics. A Book Of Verses.
By Adelaide Anne Procter
With An Introduction by Charles Dickens
Published by George Bell & Sons: London 1892 (Seventy-Fifth Thousand)
"Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Few 20th-century critics have discussed her work because of Procter's religious beliefs, but her poetry is beginning to be re-evaluated as showing technical skill.
Procter never married. Her health suffered, possibly due to overwork, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.
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General wear, fading and some damage to covers and spine as shown. Small inscription present. Binding is excellent with no loose pages.
Pages are in present well with subtle age toning. A nice copy in good condition overall. Please study photos to further understand condition.
Size 16.5cm x 11cm x 3cm - 223 Pages
