Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts gave this book a glowing review in the Athenæum. The Westminster Review called the Italian-influenced pieces a series of wonderful picture verses . . . containing each a...

In the 1870s and 1880s AW was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of...

The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural...

MPD recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne in Putney, the backwoods of West London, and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences had reduced his health and finances and made...

MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.

In his obituary for her, Theodore Watts (later Watts-Dunton) , wrote that she did not seek publication before this book, though she had always had a love of literature and poetry, and began to write...