Legends And Lyrics Adelaide Ann Procter, 1874-1875 Leather Bound

 Charles Dickens Introduction

Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist.

Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Few 20th-century critics have discussed her work because of Procter's religious beliefs, but her poetry is beginning to be re-evaluated as showing technical skill.

Procter never married. Her health suffered, possibly due to overwork, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.

Publisher: George Bell and Sons, London. Hardcover. 6.25 inches tall; 518 pages; 1874 & 1875 George Bell and Sons, London. 2 volumes in one binding, complete, xxxi, 264; 223 pp. Engraved frontis portrait. 1875, "27th thousand" in Vol I and 1875, 10th edition in Vol II. Finely bound; uniform in red full morocco with decorative panelling in gilt to boards, raised bands on spines with gilt tooled compartments and titles tooled directly in gilt. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to spine ends joint edges. Superficial shelf tapping to corners; mild dulling to gilt work at spines. Previous owner's signature in ink on fly leaf,- Arthur Boyle, July 20^th, 1876. VG overall.