May Probyn
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn, known as May Probyn (12 April 1856 – 29 March 1909) was an English poet, one of a group of lively and somewhat political British fin de siècle poets.[1]
She was born in Avranches, France.[2] Her parents were the writer John Webb Probyn and Mary Christiana née Spicer;[3] and the novelist and short-story writer Sophie Dora Spicer Maude was a cousin.[4] She was the first love of William Satchell,[5] who published the first two of her three books of poetry. She published a novel in 1878,[6] and became a Catholic convert in 1883.[7] Among her friends were W. B. Yeats,[5] Thomas Westwood, the fishing writer,[8] Vernon Lee,[9] and Katharine Tynan, with whom in 1895 she published Christmas Verses, consisting of four poems by Probyn and two by Tynan.[7]
Probyn is buried in St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake.[10][11] Her grave is inscribed 'That, being dead to this world, she may live to thee'.
A number of Probyn's poems have been set to music, including "Vilanelle" by Jacques Blumenthal in 1899[12] and "Come What Will, You Are Mine To-day" by Henry Kimball Hadley in 1909.[13]
Works
- Once! Twice! Thrice! and Away! A Novel. (1878)
- Robert Tresilian. A Story (1880)
- Who Killed Cock Robin? (1880)
- Poems (1881)
- A Ballad of the Road, and Other Poems (1883)
- Pansies: A Book of Poems (1895)
Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.[14]
References
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- ↑ "Julian John Webb Probyn", Ancestry.com
- ↑ Probyn Family at elgar.org
- ↑ "Maude, Mrs William – Sophie Dora", The Catholic Who's Who & Year Book 1908, edited by Sir F. C. Burnard (London: Burns & Oates), p. 272.
- ↑ a b Stafford, Jane and Williams, Mark, Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006), p. 232.
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- ↑ a b The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan: Poet and Novelist, edited by Damian Atkinson (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), p. 84, n. 133.
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- ↑ Canani, Marco (2014). Vernon Lee and the Italian Renaissance: Plasticity, Gender, Genre, p. 54.
- ↑ Meller, Hugh: Parsons, Brian (2011). London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer (Fifth ed.). Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. p. 261. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Probyn, May
- ↑ "Vilanelle", In Memoriam: Book of Ten Songs, Op. 102 (1899), no. 10
- ↑ "Come What Will, You Are Mine To-day", Five Songs, Op. 44,(1909), no. 5.
- ↑ Publicappeal.org Template:Webarchive at www.publicappeal.org
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Sources
- "May Probyn", in Thesing, William B. Victorian Women Poets, 1998. Volume 199 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
External links
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- 1856 births
- 1909 deaths
- 19th-century English writers
- 19th-century English women writers
- English Catholic poets
- English women poets
- Victorian poets
- Victorian women writers
- Burials at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake
- British expatriates in France