Adelaide Procter

-
Standard Name: Procter, Adelaide
Birth Name: Adelaide Anne Procter
Indexed Name: Adelaide Procter
Pseudonym: Mary Berwick
AP 's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the Langham Place Circle and supporter of the Victoria Press , for which she edited the showcase annual The Victoria Regia as well as contributing journalism and poetry to the English Woman's Journal. A convert to Catholicism, much of whose oeuvre is religious poetry (at times put to the service of social protest), she was allegedly the favourite writer of the Queen and certainly one of the best-selling poets of her day. She died young, leaving only three short collections of her poetry.
Black and white photograph of a painting of Adelaide Procter by Emma Gaggiotti Richards. She is wearing a simple dark dress with long, wide sleeves, and decorative red tassels hanging down the front and back, which are connected by a rope that sits around her shoulders. Her smooth dark hair is pulled back into a simple bun. The painting has a simple dark background, which blends out to reveal unpainted board at the edges. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
By 1852, EG 's strong nucleus of important female friends included Barbara Leigh Smith , Bessie Parkes , Adelaide Procter , Octavia and Miranda Hill , and Harriet Martineau .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
311
Friends, Associates Jessie Boucherett
Helen Blackburn recounts that JB met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Adelaide Procter after casually picking up a copy of the English Woman's Journal at a railway station. She was so impressed with the contents...
Friends, Associates Coventry Patmore
CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...
Friends, Associates Bessie Rayner Parkes
Beginning in 1854, BRP and Barbara Leigh Smith participated in a society called the Portfolio Club in order to exhibit and share comment on their own and other women's artistic and literary creations. Other members...
Intertextuality and Influence Rosa Nouchette Carey
Each chapter is given a title and an epigraph, among which lines from women writers (Jean Ingelow , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Adelaide Anne Procter , Anne Brontë , Helen Marion Burnside ) are...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...
Intertextuality and Influence Edna Lyall
In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning 's Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
qtd. in
Lyall, Edna. The Autobiography of a Slander. New Edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1888.
13
the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...
Intertextuality and Influence Georgiana Fullerton
The novel's title foregrounds GF 's perhaps fantastic extrapolation from history, justified in the Introduction with the assertion that Truth and fiction are closely blended in this tale. . . . Those who are sometimes...
Intertextuality and Influence Matilda Hays
Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...
Leisure and Society Jean Ingelow
JI became a member of the Portfolio Society , to which Adelaide Procter , Emily Faithfull , and several other members of the Langham Place Group also belonged.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
35
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
401
Literary responses Jean Ingelow
On 1 December 1863, Christina Rossetti wrote to her publisher, Miss Procter I am not afraid of; but Miss Ingelow . . . would be a formidable rival to most men, and to any woman...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh was, according to Barry Cornwall (father of Adelaide Procter ), the book of the season.
Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
113
John Ruskin wrote shortly after its appearance, I think Aurora Leigh the greatest poem in the English...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Angela Dickens
The journal All the Year Round, founded by MAD 's grandfather and then edited by her father, was one of the first and most significant platforms for her short stories and serialized novels. Other...
names Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • BirthName: Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Renée Julia Belloc
    Her many names were given in honour of various relatives and of her mother's friends Mary Merryweather and Adelaide Procter .
    Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
    87

  • Nickname: Mary
    Her English relations and...
Occupation Emily Faithfull
This was an important year for the Victoria Press, and consequently for EF . In addition to printing The English Woman's Journal, the Transactions of the Social Science Association, and a number of...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.