May Probyn

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 published a novel in 1878, and became a Catholic convert in the following decade.[2]

Thomas Westwood, the fishing writer, was a friend.[3] Probyn is buried in St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake.[4][5]

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.)

Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.[6]

References

1. Marshall, Gail (2 August 2007). The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 234–5. ISBN 978-0-521-85063-6.
2. Kreuger, Christine L. (1 January 2009). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries. Infobase Publishing. pp. 277–. ISBN 978-1-4381-0870-4.
3. Moine, Dr Fabienne (28 November 2015). Women Poets in the Victorian Era: Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4724-6477-4.
4. Meller, Hugh: Parsons, Brian (2011). London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer (Fifth ed.). Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. p. 261. ISBN 978 0 7524 6183 0.
5. Probyn, May
6. Publicappeal.org Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine at www.publicappeal.org

Sources

• "May Probyn", in Thesing, William B. Victorian Women Poets, 1998. Volume 199 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

External links

• Works by or about May Probyn at Internet Archive
• Works by May Probyn at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)