Michael Field, The Poet: Published and Manuscript Materials (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Katherine Bradley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551116758 ISBN 13: 9781551116754

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2009

Synopsis

“Michael Field” was the literary pseudonym of two women, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth century up to World War I. Their arresting poetry has recently gained them a place in the canon, and their extensive engagement with other writers puts them at the centre of fin de siècle literary culture.

This Broadview Edition offers selections from all published books of poetry by Michael Field, and a substantial section of transcriptions from largely unpublished manuscript letters and diaries that gives insight into the extraordinary life and work of the authors. A critical introduction, bibliography, and selection of contemporary reviews are also included.

About this title

About the Author

Marion Thain is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Ana Parejo Vadillo is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London.

From the Back Cover

"Michael Field" was the literary pseudonym of two women, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women were poets, playwrights, diarist, and lovers who lived and wrote together during the final decades of the nineteenth century up to World War I. Their arresting poetry has recently gained them a place in the canon, and their extensive engagement with other writers puts them at the centre of fin de siècle literary culture.

This Broadview Edition offers selections from all published books of poetry by Michael Field, and a substantial section of transcriptions from largely unpublished manuscript letters and diaries that gives insight into the extraordinary life and work of the authors. A critical introduction, bibliography, and selection of contemporary reviews are also included.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551116758
• ISBN 13: 9781551116754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384