Dollie Radford
English poet and writer
Caroline Maitland (1858–1920) was an English poet and writer. She worked under the name "Dollie Radford" after she married Ernest Radford .
Life
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
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
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
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