Female poets - Context Flashcards
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Jessie Pope
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- Successful columnist
- Prolific writer
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Marian Allen
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- First met Arthur Tylston Greg, whom she was to be have married, and to whom, under the initials A.T.G her book of her poems was dedicated
- Arthur Greg and Allen’s brother Dundas joined the army in August 1914
- Arthur was injured but joined the flying corps after Dundas was awarded the Military Cross
- Was shot down over St Quentin
- Marian heard the news on 30 April or 1st May, poem written in 10th May
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Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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- Born in California
- Writer
- Married Sanborn Young who was elected State Senate, largely due, it is believed due to his wife’s political campaign
- Poem written in 1916 before Sassoon and Owen
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Edith Nesbit
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- Married Hubert Bland in 1880 and had an unconventional marriage with him, including infidelities on both sides.
- Youngest son, Fabian died in 1900
- A theme of her loneliness as a child seems to run throughout her children’s books, missed her own father and that she did not want her husband’s children that lonely experience
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Vera Brittain
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- English nurse, writer, feminist and pacifist
- Envied her brother’s freedom to do things
- Fell in love with her brother’s friend Roland
- Urged her brother to enlist and she believed soldiers were brave and heroic
- Summer of 1915 she started to work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse for much of WW1
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Winifred Letts
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- Trained as a masseuse and worked at camps in Manchester during WW1
- Joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment
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Iris Tree
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- Born in London
- Daughter of famous actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- Her first poems were published when she was 16
- Studied art at the Slade
- Married twice the second time to a count
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May Wedderburn Cannen
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- When she turned 18 in October 1911, she took the exams to join the VAD of which her mother was the local commandment
- In the summer of 1915, many of Mays friends had been wounded, some killed
