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Caroline Maitland (1858–1920) was an English poet and writer. She worked under the name "Dollie Radford" after she married
Chris Hall, 2008, The Guardian, Retrieved 14 February 2017 Her friends included her sister in law Ada Wallas and the socialist
Works at The Victorian Women Writers Project
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with 12 catalogue records {{DEFAULTSORT:Radford, Dollie 1858 births 1920 deaths 19th-century English poets 19th-century English women writers 20th-century English poets 20th-century English women writers English women poets Victorian women writers Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers
Caroline Maitland (1858–1920) was an English poet and writer. She worked under the name "Dollie Radford" after she married Ernest Radford
Ernest William Radford (1857–1919) was an English poet, critic and socialist. He was a follower of William Morris, and one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement; he acted as secretary to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.
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Life
Maitland was born in 1858 and in 1880 she met her future husband in theBritish Museum Reading Room
The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. In 1997, this function moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, ...
and they continued to meet at Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
's house. She married Ernest Radford
Ernest William Radford (1857–1919) was an English poet, critic and socialist. He was a follower of William Morris, and one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement; he acted as secretary to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.
He w ...
in 1883, and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children, one being the doctor and writer Maitland Radford. Her grandchildren include the town and park planner Ann MacEwen.Ann MacEwanChris Hall, 2008, The Guardian, Retrieved 14 February 2017 Her friends included her sister in law Ada Wallas and the socialist
Eleanor Marx
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist who sometimes worked as a ...
, whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
, and Amy Levy. Her papers are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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at UCLA
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and at the British Library
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. Many of the British Library manuscripts have been digitized and can be viewed at Europeana
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Her husband was a member of the Rhymers' Club
The Rhymers' Club was a group of London-based male poets, founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. Originally not much more than a dining club, it produced anthologies of poetry in 1892 and 1894.''The Oxford Companion to English Literatu ...
, but Maitland could not join because of sexual discrimination.
Works
*''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
Further reading
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Works at The Victorian Women Writers Project
* * * * Dollie Radford manuscripts a
Europeana Collections
with 12 catalogue records {{DEFAULTSORT:Radford, Dollie 1858 births 1920 deaths 19th-century English poets 19th-century English women writers 20th-century English poets 20th-century English women writers English women poets Victorian women writers Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers