Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist.
Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist.
Her hypothetical career began in the same way as she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens’s periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and highly developed in feminist journals. Her charity proceed and her conversion to Roman Catholicism seem to have influenced her poetry, which deals once such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed humane 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 innovative critics have rated her work, but it is yet thought significant for what it reveals practically how Victorian women expressed on the other hand repressed feelings.
Procter never married. Her health suffered, possibly due to overwork, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.