Anna Wickham
British poet
Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1883 – 1 May 1947), an English-Australian poet who was a pioneer of modernist poetry. She was a friend of other writers of the time, such as D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Katherine Mansfield and Dylan Thomas. Wickham lived a transnational, unconventional life, moving between Australia, England and France. She is remembered as a feminist writer.
Quotes
edit- It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.- "The Affinity", st. 4, in The Contemplative Quarry (London, 1915), p. 16
