Dollie Radford
Caroline Maitland (1858–1920) was an English poet and writer. She worked under the name "Dollie Radford" after she married Ernest Radford.
Life
[edit]Maitland was born in 1858 and in 1880 she met her future husband in the British Museum Reading Room and they continued to meet at Karl Marx's house.[1] She married Ernest Radford in 1883, and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children, one being the doctor and writer Maitland Radford.[2] Her grandchildren include the town and park planner Ann MacEwen.[1]
Her friends included her sister in law Ada Wallas[3] and the socialist Eleanor Marx, whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by Karl Marx, and Amy Levy. Her papers are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA[4] and at the British Library.[5] Many of the British Library manuscripts have been digitized and can be viewed at Europeana.[6]
Her husband was a member of the Rhymers' Club, but Maitland could not join because of sexual discrimination.[7]
Works
[edit]- A Light Load (1891)
- Songs for Somebody (1893)
- Good Night (1895)
- Songs and Other Verses (1895)
- One Way of Love: an Idyll (1898)
- The Poet’s Larder and Other Stories (1904)
- The Young Gardeners’ Kalendar (1904)
- Sea-Thrift (1904)
- In Summer Time (1905)
- Shadow-Rabbit, with Gertrude M. Bradley (1906)
- A Ballad of Victory and other poems (1907)
- Poems (1910)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ann MacEwan, Chris Hall, 2008, The Guardian, Retrieved 14 February 2017
- ^ Diana Baynes Jansen (1 August 2003). Jung's Apprentice: A Biography of Helton Godwin Baynes. Daimon. p. 36. ISBN 978-3-85630-626-7. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ^ Sutherland, Gillian (April 2016). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71037. Retrieved 26 January 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Register of the Dollie Radford Papers: A Collection of Papers Relating to Dollie Radford, Her Family and Circle of Friends, 1880-1920" http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8b69p1zw
- ^ Radford archive http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?fn=search&ct=search&initialSearch=true&mode=Basic&tab=local&indx=1&dum=true&srt=rank&vid=IAMS_VU2&frbg=&vl%28freeText0%29=radford&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29
- ^ Dollie Radford manuscripts at Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=dollie+radford/
- ^ Adams, Jad (2004). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95480. Retrieved 14 February 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Further reading
[edit]- Alford, Norman (1994), The Rhymers' Club: Poets of the Tragic Generation, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0312123413
- Brandon, Ruth (1990), The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex, and the Woman Question, Secker & Warburg, ISBN 978-0436067228
- Garnett, David (1960), The Golden Echo, Harcourt, Brace, ASIN B0000CKQUL
- Kapp, Yvonne (1977), Eleanor Marx, vol. 1, Pantheon Books, ISBN 978-0394734569
- Kapp, Yvonne (1977), Eleanor Marx, vol. 2, Pantheon Books, ISBN 978-0394734576
- Lawrence, David Herbert (1981), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence; Volume II, 1913-16, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521231114
- Lawrence, David Herbert (1981), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: Volume 3, October 1916-June 1921, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521231121
- Livesey, Ruth (2006), Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914, British Academy, ISBN 978-0197263983
- Livesey, Ruth (2006), "Dollie Radford and the Ethical Aesthetics of "Fin-de-Siecle" Poetry", Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 495–517, doi:10.1017/S1060150306051291, S2CID 162470742
- Lyon Mix, Katherine (1960), A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors, University Press of Kansas, ASIN B0000CKQUL
- Radford, Maitland (1945), Poems by Maitland Radford: With a Memoir by Some of his Friends, Allen & Unwin, ASIN B0006DCPFY
- Richardson, LeeAnne (2000), "Naturally Radical: The Subversive Poetics of Dollie Radford", Victorian Poetry, vol. 38, no. 1 (published 2006), pp. 109–124, doi:10.1353/vp.2000.0008
- Schaffer, Talia (2000), The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late Victorian England, University of Virginia Press, ISBN 978-0813919379
External links
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- Works at The Victorian Women Writers Project
- Works by Dollie Radford at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Dollie Radford at the Internet Archive
- Dollie Radford at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalogue records
- Dollie Radford manuscripts at Europeana Collections, with 12 catalogue records
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