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'''Michael Field''' was a [[pseudonym]] used for the [[poetry]] and [[verse drama]] of the English authors '''Katherine Harris Bradley''' (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward '''Edith Emma Cooper''' (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal ''Works and Days''. Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend [[Robert Browning]]. |
'''Michael Field''' was a [[pseudonym]] used for the [[poetry]] and [[verse drama]] of the English authors '''Katherine Harris Bradley''' (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward '''Edith Emma Cooper''' (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field, they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal ''Works and Days''. Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend [[Robert Browning]]. |
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==Biographies== |
==Biographies== |
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⚫ | Katherine Bradley was born on 27 October 1846 in [[Birmingham]], England, the daughter of Charles Bradley, a tobacco manufacturer, and of Emma (née Harris). Her grandfather, also Charles Bradley, was a prominent follower and financial backer of prophetess [[Joanna Southcott]] and her self-styled successor [[John Ward (prophet)|John "Zion" Ward]].<ref>Latham, Jackie E. M. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/4289834 The Bradleys of Birmingham: The Unorthodox family of Michael Field] (History workshop journal, issue 55).</ref> She attended lectures at the [[Collège de France]] in 1868, and in 1874 she attended a course at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]] specially designed for women; however, she did not receive a degree for it. |
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⚫ | Katherine Bradley was born on 27 October 1846 in [[Birmingham]], |
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Bradley's elder sister, Emma, married James Robert Cooper in 1860, and went to live in [[Kenilworth]], where their daughter, Edith Emma Cooper was born on 12 January 1862. Emma Cooper became an invalid for life after the birth of her second daughter, Amy, and Katharine Bradley, being her sister, stepped in to become the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper.<ref>Sturgeon, 1922, pp. 14–17.</ref> |
Bradley's elder sister, Emma, married James Robert Cooper in 1860, and went to live in [[Kenilworth]], where their daughter, Edith Emma Cooper was born on 12 January 1862. Emma Cooper became an invalid for life after the birth of her second daughter, Amy, and Katharine Bradley, being her sister, stepped in to become the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper.<ref>Sturgeon, 1922, pp. 14–17.</ref> |
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Bradley was for a time involved with [[John Ruskin|Ruskin]]'s utopian project. She published first under the pseudonym '''Arran Leigh''', a nod to [[Elizabeth Barrett]]. Edith adopted the name '''Isla Leigh''' for their first joint publication, ''Bellerophôn''. |
Bradley was for a time involved with [[John Ruskin|Ruskin]]'s utopian project. She published first under the pseudonym '''Arran Leigh''', a nod to [[Elizabeth Barrett]]. Edith adopted the name '''Isla Leigh''' for their first joint publication, ''Bellerophôn''. |
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From the late 1870s, when Edith was at [[University College, Bristol]], they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, [[lesbian]] lovers,<ref name="bristow">{{citation |title=Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing |editor-first=Joseph |editor-last=Bristow |year=1992 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-06937-8 |chapter='Poets and Lovers Evermore': The poetry and journals of Michael Field |first=Chris |last=White}}</ref> and co-authors. Their first joint publication as Michael Field was "Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund" in 1884. [[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenaeum]] noted that 'the famous Faun song in |
From the late 1870s, when Edith was at [[University College, Bristol]], they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, [[lesbian]] lovers,<ref name="bristow">{{citation |title=Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing |editor-first=Joseph |editor-last=Bristow |year=1992 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-06937-8 |chapter='Poets and Lovers Evermore': The poetry and journals of Michael Field |first=Chris |last=White}}</ref> and co-authors. Their first joint publication as Michael Field was "Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund" in 1884. [[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenaeum]] noted that 'the famous Faun song in 'Callirrhoé,' which has found its way into many anthologies, the Fairy songs in 'Fair Rosamund,' and the whole of the poignant drama of 'The Father's Tragedy' were the work of the younger writer while still a girl.'<ref name=Athenaeum >{{Cite journal |date=17 October 1914 |title=MICHAEL FIELD |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_athenaeum-uk_1914-10-17_4538/page/398/mode/2up |journal=The Athenaeum |issue=4528 |pages=39 |via=Internet archive}}</ref> They had financial independence. |
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They were Aestheticists, strongly influenced by the thoughts of Walter Pater. They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular painters and life partners [[Charles Ricketts]] and [[Charles Haslewood Shannon|Charles Shannon]], near whom they settled in [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond]], London. Robert Browning was |
They were Aestheticists, strongly influenced by the thoughts of Walter Pater. They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular painters and life partners [[Charles Ricketts]] and [[Charles Haslewood Shannon|Charles Shannon]], near whom they settled in [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond]], London. Robert Browning was a close friend of theirs—if also the source of their leaked identity—as well as [[Rudyard Kipling]]. They also knew and admired [[Oscar Wilde]], whose death they bitterly mourned. While they were always well connected, the early critical success was not sustained (this is often attributed to the joint identity of Field becoming known). They knew many of the [[aesthetic movement]] of the 1890s, including [[Walter Pater]], [[Vernon Lee]], [[J. A. Symonds]] and also [[Bernard Berenson]]. [[William Rothenstein]] was a friend. In 1899 the death of Edith's father enabled them to buy their own house as evidence of their "close marriage", although Edith saw her father's death as retribution for their lifestyle. Edith later led the way in establishing the couple as active Catholics.<ref name=blain/> |
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[[File:Katherine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper (2).jpg|thumb|Katherine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper]] |
[[File:Katherine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper (2).jpg|thumb|Katherine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper]] |
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They wrote a number of passionate love poems to each other, and their name Michael Field was their way of declaring their inseparable oneness. Friends referred to them as the Fields, the Michaels or the Michael Fields. They had a range of pet names for each other. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, |
They wrote a number of passionate love poems to each other, and their name Michael Field was their way of declaring their inseparable oneness. Friends referred to them as the Fields, the Michaels, or the Michael Fields. They had a range of pet names for each other. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, particularly Whym Chow, for whom they wrote a book of elegiac poems entitled ''Whym Chow: Flame of Love''. Their joint journal starts with an account of Bradley's passion for [[Alfred Gérente]], an artist in [[stained glass]] and brother of [[Henri Gérente]], who was of an English background but worked mostly in France. It goes on to document Michael Field as a figure, amongst 'his' literary counterparts, and their lives together. When Whym Chow died in 1906, the emotional pattern of the relationship was disturbed; both women became [[Roman Catholic]] converts in 1907. Their religious inclinations are reflected in their later works, where their earlier writing is influenced by classical and Renaissance culture, in its pagan aspects particularly, [[Sappho]] as understood by the late Victorians, and perhaps [[Walter Savage Landor]]. |
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Katherine had found that she had breast cancer in June 1913 and only told her confessor, [[Vincent McNabb]]; she had never told Edith, who had been diagnosed with [[cancer]] in 1911. Edith died 13 December 1913 at their home, The Paragon, [[Richmond, London|Richmond]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 December 1913 |title=Miss E. E. Cooper |pages=10 |work=Times |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS169017743/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=3d358a54 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=26 November 1914 |title=Miss Katharine Harris Bradley |pages=11 |work=Times |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS185271162/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=0d265c8e |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> Katherine died 26 September 1914, having moved to a cottage near McNabb at [[Hawkesyard Priory]], [[Rugeley]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roden |first=Frederick |title=Same-sex desire in Victorian religious culture |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |year=2002 |pages=190–225 |chapter=7 Lesbian Trinitarianism, Canine Catholicism: Michael Field}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 September 1914 |title=Michael Field |pages=10 |work=Times |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS169018172/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=28c6f48f |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> They are buried together in the cemetery of St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church in Mortlake.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Cemetery. St Mary Magdalen RC |url=https://www.stmarymags.org.uk/our-cemetery |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> |
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Their joint journal starts with an account of Bradley's passion for [[Alfred Gérente]], an artist in [[stained glass]] and brother of [[Henri Gérente]], who was of an English background but worked mostly in France. It goes on to document Michael Field as a figure, amongst 'his' literary counterparts, and their lives together. When Whym Chow died in 1906, the emotional pattern of the relationship was disturbed; both women became [[Roman Catholic]] converts in 1907. Their religious inclinations are reflected in their later works, where their earlier writing is influenced by classical and Renaissance culture, in its pagan aspects particularly, [[Sappho]] as understood by the late Victorians, and perhaps [[Walter Savage Landor]]. |
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==Legacy== |
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⚫ | A review of their poems in 1908 noted that 'One of the London weeklies, announcing the new volume, comments on the strange anomaly that a poet of "Michael Field’s distinction should have had such slight recognition in this country. A writer in the "[[The Academy (periodical)|Academy]]" is quoted as saying that "he is perhaps the greatest of our living lyric poets who are actually writing at this time, |
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In 1923, saddened at their lack of a memorial, [[Charles Ricketts]] designed one for them of black stone, for which [[John Gray (poet)|John Gray]] wrote the epitaph ('United in blood, united in Christ'). However, this tombstone at [[St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake]] cracked irreparably in 1926, the year in which it was installed, and is now lost.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Donoghue |first1=Emma |title=We Are Michael Field |date=1998 |publisher=Absolute Press |location=Bath |isbn=1899791663 |pages=144–5 }}</ref> |
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Their extensive diaries are stored in the British Library,<ref name=blain>Virginia H. Blain, 'Bradley, Katharine Harris (1846–1914)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38348, accessed 26 December 2015]</ref> and have been |
Their extensive diaries are stored in the British Library,<ref name=blain>Virginia H. Blain, 'Bradley, Katharine Harris (1846–1914)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38348, accessed 26 December 2015]</ref> and have been digitized and made available by the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vllc.wordpress.cdhsc.org/the-michael-field-diaries/|title=The Online Diaries of "Michael Field" - The Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium|website=cdhsc.org|accessdate=2021-01-14|archive-date=21 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121024731/https://vllc.wordpress.cdhsc.org/the-michael-field-diaries/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Carolyn Dever argues that the diaries contain many novelistic qualities—at least up until the time of Whym Chow's death.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691203447/chains-of-love-and-beauty |title=Chains of Love and Beauty |date=2022-04-19 |isbn=978-0-691-20344-7 |language=en}}</ref> |
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A much-edited selection from the journals, which were two dozen annual volumes in [[ledger]]s with aspects of [[scrapbooking|scrapbooks]] combined with a self-conscious literary style of composition, was prepared by [[T. Sturge Moore]], a friend through his mother Marie. |
A much-edited selection from the journals, which were two dozen annual volumes in [[ledger]]s with aspects of [[scrapbooking|scrapbooks]] combined with a self-conscious literary style of composition, was prepared by [[T. Sturge Moore]], a friend through his mother Marie. |
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==Reception== |
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⚫ | A review of their poems in 1908 noted that 'One of the London weeklies, announcing the new volume, comments on the strange anomaly that a poet of "Michael Field’s" distinction should have had such slight recognition in this country. A writer in the "[[The Academy (periodical)|Academy]]" is quoted as saying that "he is perhaps the greatest of our living lyric poets who are actually writing at this time," and it is claimed that those who are acquainted with the poet's work must agree with this appreciation. Without entering into the question of comparative merit (says the "[[Yorkshire Observer]]"), it may be readily admitted that the poems have had a genuine note of distinction'.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 January 1908 |title=A LITERARY SENSATION CREATED BY TWO RICHMOND LADIES |work=Richmond and Twickenham Times}}</ref> The Athenaeum noted that 'Seven years ago both poets were received into the Roman Church, and their definitely Catholic work is represented by two volumes of devotional verse: 'Poems of Adoration,' by the younger, and 'Mystic Trees,' by the elder writer.'<ref name=Athenaeum /> |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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*[https://archive.org/details/newminnesingera00conggoog The New Minnesinger and other poems] (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875) poems by Arran Leigh. |
*[https://archive.org/details/newminnesingera00conggoog The New Minnesinger and other poems] (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875) poems by Arran Leigh. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [[List of poets portraying sexual relations between women|Lesbian |
* [[List of poets portraying sexual relations between women|Lesbian poetry]] |
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* Dever, Carolyn. ''[https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691203447/chains-of-love-and-beauty Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field]'' (Princeton UP, 2022). |
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* Donoghue, Emma |
* Donoghue, Emma. ''We Are Michael Field'' (Absolute Press, 1998). |
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* Ehnenn, Jill. ''[https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-michael-field-s-revisionary-poetics.html Michael Field's Revisionary Poetics]'' (Edinburgh UP, 2023). |
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* Sturgeon, Mary. ''[[iarchive:michaelfield00sturuoft|Michael Field]]'' (George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1922). |
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* Treby, Ivor C. ''Music and Silence: The Gamut of Michael Field'' (2000). |
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* Vadillo, Ana. ''Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230287969] ''(Palgrave, 2005). |
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*Thain, Marion and Ana Vadillo. ''Michael Field, The Poet. Published and Manuscript Materials [https://broadviewpress.com/product/michael-field-the-poet/#tab-description]'' (Broadview, 2009). |
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Latest revision as of 01:03, 7 November 2024
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of the English authors Katherine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field, they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal Works and Days. Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning.
Biographies
[edit]Katherine Bradley was born on 27 October 1846 in Birmingham, England, the daughter of Charles Bradley, a tobacco manufacturer, and of Emma (née Harris). Her grandfather, also Charles Bradley, was a prominent follower and financial backer of prophetess Joanna Southcott and her self-styled successor John "Zion" Ward.[1] She attended lectures at the Collège de France in 1868, and in 1874 she attended a course at Newnham College, Cambridge specially designed for women; however, she did not receive a degree for it.
Bradley's elder sister, Emma, married James Robert Cooper in 1860, and went to live in Kenilworth, where their daughter, Edith Emma Cooper was born on 12 January 1862. Emma Cooper became an invalid for life after the birth of her second daughter, Amy, and Katharine Bradley, being her sister, stepped in to become the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper.[2]
Bradley was for a time involved with Ruskin's utopian project. She published first under the pseudonym Arran Leigh, a nod to Elizabeth Barrett. Edith adopted the name Isla Leigh for their first joint publication, Bellerophôn.
From the late 1870s, when Edith was at University College, Bristol, they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, lesbian lovers,[3] and co-authors. Their first joint publication as Michael Field was "Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund" in 1884. The Athenaeum noted that 'the famous Faun song in 'Callirrhoé,' which has found its way into many anthologies, the Fairy songs in 'Fair Rosamund,' and the whole of the poignant drama of 'The Father's Tragedy' were the work of the younger writer while still a girl.'[4] They had financial independence.
They were Aestheticists, strongly influenced by the thoughts of Walter Pater. They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular painters and life partners Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, near whom they settled in Richmond, London. Robert Browning was a close friend of theirs—if also the source of their leaked identity—as well as Rudyard Kipling. They also knew and admired Oscar Wilde, whose death they bitterly mourned. While they were always well connected, the early critical success was not sustained (this is often attributed to the joint identity of Field becoming known). They knew many of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, including Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, J. A. Symonds and also Bernard Berenson. William Rothenstein was a friend. In 1899 the death of Edith's father enabled them to buy their own house as evidence of their "close marriage", although Edith saw her father's death as retribution for their lifestyle. Edith later led the way in establishing the couple as active Catholics.[5]
They wrote a number of passionate love poems to each other, and their name Michael Field was their way of declaring their inseparable oneness. Friends referred to them as the Fields, the Michaels, or the Michael Fields. They had a range of pet names for each other. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, particularly Whym Chow, for whom they wrote a book of elegiac poems entitled Whym Chow: Flame of Love. Their joint journal starts with an account of Bradley's passion for Alfred Gérente, an artist in stained glass and brother of Henri Gérente, who was of an English background but worked mostly in France. It goes on to document Michael Field as a figure, amongst 'his' literary counterparts, and their lives together. When Whym Chow died in 1906, the emotional pattern of the relationship was disturbed; both women became Roman Catholic converts in 1907. Their religious inclinations are reflected in their later works, where their earlier writing is influenced by classical and Renaissance culture, in its pagan aspects particularly, Sappho as understood by the late Victorians, and perhaps Walter Savage Landor.
Katherine had found that she had breast cancer in June 1913 and only told her confessor, Vincent McNabb; she had never told Edith, who had been diagnosed with cancer in 1911. Edith died 13 December 1913 at their home, The Paragon, Richmond.[6][7] Katherine died 26 September 1914, having moved to a cottage near McNabb at Hawkesyard Priory, Rugeley.[8][9] They are buried together in the cemetery of St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church in Mortlake.[10]
Legacy
[edit]In 1923, saddened at their lack of a memorial, Charles Ricketts designed one for them of black stone, for which John Gray wrote the epitaph ('United in blood, united in Christ'). However, this tombstone at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake cracked irreparably in 1926, the year in which it was installed, and is now lost.[11]
Their extensive diaries are stored in the British Library,[5] and have been digitized and made available by the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium.[12] Carolyn Dever argues that the diaries contain many novelistic qualities—at least up until the time of Whym Chow's death.[13]
A much-edited selection from the journals, which were two dozen annual volumes in ledgers with aspects of scrapbooks combined with a self-conscious literary style of composition, was prepared by T. Sturge Moore, a friend through his mother Marie.
Reception
[edit]A review of their poems in 1908 noted that 'One of the London weeklies, announcing the new volume, comments on the strange anomaly that a poet of "Michael Field’s" distinction should have had such slight recognition in this country. A writer in the "Academy" is quoted as saying that "he is perhaps the greatest of our living lyric poets who are actually writing at this time," and it is claimed that those who are acquainted with the poet's work must agree with this appreciation. Without entering into the question of comparative merit (says the "Yorkshire Observer"), it may be readily admitted that the poems have had a genuine note of distinction'.[14] The Athenaeum noted that 'Seven years ago both poets were received into the Roman Church, and their definitely Catholic work is represented by two volumes of devotional verse: 'Poems of Adoration,' by the younger, and 'Mystic Trees,' by the elder writer.'[4]
Works
[edit]- The New Minnesinger and other poems (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875) poems by Arran Leigh.
- Bellerophon (C. Kegan Paul, 1881) by Arran and Isla Leigh.
- Callirrhoe & Fair Rosamund (1884) verse dramas.
- The Father's Tragedy (1885) verse drama.
- William Rufus (1885) verse drama.
- Loyalty Or Love? (1885) verse drama.
- Brutus Ultor (1886) verse drama.
- Canute the Great (1887) verse drama.
- The Cup of Water (1887) verse drama.
- Long Ago (1889) poems.
- The Tragic Mary (1890) verse drama.
- Sight and Song (1892) E. Mathews and J. Lane, poems
- Stephania, a Trialogue (1892) verse drama.
- A Question of Memory (1893) drama.[15]
- Underneath the Bough (1893) poems.
- Attila, My Attila (1896) verse drama.
- World at Auction (1898) Vale Press, verse drama.
- Noontide Branches (1899) verse drama.
- Anna Ruina (1899) verse drama.
- Race of Leaves (1901) Vale Press, verse drama.
- Julia Domna (1903) Vale Press, verse drama.
- Borgia (1905) verse drama.
- Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908) poems.
- Queen Mariamne (1908) verse drama.
- Tragedy of Pardon (1911) verse drama.
- Tristan de Léonois (1911) verse drama.
- Dian (1911) verse drama.
- The Accuser (1911) verse drama.
- A Messiah (1911) verse drama.
- Poems of Adoration (1912).
- Mystic Trees (1913) poems.
- Whym Chow: Flame of Love (1914) poems.
- Ras Byzance (1918) verse drama.
- Deirdre (1918) verse drama.
- In The Name of Time (1919) verse drama.
- Selection (1923).
- The Wattlefold: Unpublished Poems (1930).
- Works and Days: From the Journal of Michael Field, (1933) edited by T. Sturge Moore (unpublished journals are now available on microfilm) kept from 1888, annual to 1914.
- A Shorter Shırazad: 101 Poems of Michael Field (1999) selection by Ivor C. Treby
- Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod - poem.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Latham, Jackie E. M. The Bradleys of Birmingham: The Unorthodox family of Michael Field (History workshop journal, issue 55).
- ^ Sturgeon, 1922, pp. 14–17.
- ^ White, Chris (1992), "'Poets and Lovers Evermore': The poetry and journals of Michael Field", in Bristow, Joseph (ed.), Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-06937-8
- ^ a b "MICHAEL FIELD". The Athenaeum (4528): 39. 17 October 1914 – via Internet archive.
- ^ a b Virginia H. Blain, 'Bradley, Katharine Harris (1846–1914)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, September 2011 accessed 26 December 2015
- ^ "Miss E. E. Cooper". Times. 15 December 1913. p. 10 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Miss Katharine Harris Bradley". Times. 26 November 1914. p. 11 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ Roden, Frederick (2002). "7 Lesbian Trinitarianism, Canine Catholicism: Michael Field". Same-sex desire in Victorian religious culture. Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 190–225.
- ^ "Michael Field". Times. 28 September 1914. p. 10 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Our Cemetery. St Mary Magdalen RC". Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Donoghue, Emma (1998). We Are Michael Field. Bath: Absolute Press. pp. 144–5. ISBN 1899791663.
- ^ "The Online Diaries of "Michael Field" - The Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium". cdhsc.org. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ Chains of Love and Beauty. 19 April 2022. ISBN 978-0-691-20344-7.
- ^ "A LITERARY SENSATION CREATED BY TWO RICHMOND LADIES". Richmond and Twickenham Times. 18 January 1908.
- ^ Premièred by the Independent Theatre Society, 27 October 1893
Bibliography
[edit]- Dever, Carolyn. Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field (Princeton UP, 2022).
- Donoghue, Emma. We Are Michael Field (Absolute Press, 1998).
- Ehnenn, Jill. Michael Field's Revisionary Poetics (Edinburgh UP, 2023).
- Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho (1999).
- Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field (George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1922).
- Treby, Ivor C. (ed). The Michael Field Catalogue: A Book of Lists (1998).
- Treby, Ivor C. Music and Silence: The Gamut of Michael Field (2000).
- Vanita, Ruth. Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (1996).
- Vadillo, Ana. Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity [1] (Palgrave, 2005).
- Thain, Marion and Ana Vadillo. Michael Field, The Poet. Published and Manuscript Materials [2] (Broadview, 2009).
External links
[edit]- Media related to Michael Field (author) at Wikimedia Commons
- Works related to Katharine Harris Bradley at Wikisource
- Works related to Edith Emma Cooper at Wikisource
- Works by or about Michael Field at the Internet Archive
- Works by Michael Field at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Michael Field at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Michael Field Archived 3 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine (Biography and poems - "Isle of Lesbos")
- Michael Field ("The Poetry Foundation")
- Michael Field ("Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800–1900")
- "Archival material relating to Michael Field". UK National Archives.
- The Poems of Michael Field
- English women poets
- English lesbian writers
- Literary collaborations
- Pseudonymous writers
- Pseudonymous women writers
- Collective pseudonyms
- Writers from Birmingham, West Midlands
- People from Kenilworth
- Writing duos
- Burials at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake
- Guild of St George
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- 19th-century pseudonymous writers