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Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life
By Jennifer Vaughan Jones
Madison Books
ISBN 1-56833-253-X
HB, $26.95, 370 pp.
Born of a literate, piano-tuning father and an eccentric, suicidal mother who worked both as a skilled orator and spiritualist during her daughter's childhood, Anna Wickham, nee Edith Harper, was a gifted poet and devoted mother whose life straddled, and was frequently at odds with, the constraints of virtuous Victoria, and the permissive pandemonium of wartime Edwardian England.
In her new biography of the subject, Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life, Dr. Jennifer Vaughan Jones, a literature professor at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisc., illuminates the oft overlooked life and work of an artist whose society included luminaries such as D.H. Lawrence, Edna...
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