The favourite poet of Queen Victoria, Adelaide Anne Procter was also an important philanthropist and early feminist writer. Her literary career was launched by Charles Dickens in his periodicals, as she submitted verses tackling themes of religion, homelessness, poverty and fallen women, drawing widespread attention to the misery of the conditions under which the poor lived. Her promising literary career was tragically cut short at the age of 38 by her death to tuberculosis, partly fuelled by her extensive charity work. After Alfred, Lord Tennyson, she was deemed by many the most popular poet of her day. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. For the first time in digital publishing, this volume presents Procter’s complete works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Procter’s life and works

* Concise introduction to Procter’s life and poetry

* Excellent formatting of the poems

* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry

* Easily locate the poems you want to read

* Includes Procter’s long-lost poem ‘The Child and the Bird’ — digitised here for the first time

* Features three biographical works, including Dickens’ seminal memoir of Procter — discover her incredible life

* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Life and Poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter

Brief Introduction: Adelaide Anne Procter by Elizabeth Lee

Legends and Lyrics: First Series (1858)

Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)

A Chaplet of Verses (1862)

The Child and the Bird (1899)

The Poems

List of Poems in Chronological Order

List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Biographies

Adelaide Anne Procter (1865) by Charles Dickens

Adelaide Procter (1883) by James Parton

Adelaide Anne Procter (1913) by Patrick Joseph Lennox