Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
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C. Amy Dawson, author of “Sappho,” an epic of much poetical force and strength in blank verse, and “Idylls of Womanhood” (1892); a series of poems in various measures, treating of “A Woman’s Ethics,” “A Woman’s Love,” “Woman’s Wit,” “A Woman’s Vengeance,” “A Woman’s Faith,” and “A Woman’s Sin.” Certainly a high performance. Besides these the late Amy Levy, author of “Xantippe, and Other Verses” (1881), “A Minor Poet, and Other Verses” (1884), “A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verses” (1889), and several works of fiction, of which “Reuben Sachs” (1888) is the most important; Miss Sarson C. J. Ingram, author of “Selina’s Story” (1875), and “Caedmon’s Vision” (1882); Miss Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, author of “The New Purgatory, and Other Poems” (1887); Miss May Probyn, author of “Poems” (1881), “A Ballad of the Road, and Other Poems” (1883), “Once, Twice, Thrice, and Away,” a novel (1878), and other works of fiction; Frances Wynne, author of “Whisper!” (poems) (1890); Alice Furlong, author of “Roses and Rue”; the anonymous author of “Songs of Lucilla”; Lady Margaret Sackville, author of “Hymn to Dionysus”; the authors of “Hand in Hand,” verses by a mother and daughter (Mrs. Kipling and Mrs. Flemming); Lady Egerton, the author of “The Lady of the Scarlet Shoes,” and Miss Elizabeth Gibson, are all worthy of more extended reference than can be given here.