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Name
  
May Probyn

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1909


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Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn, known as May Probyn (12 April 1856 – 29 March 1909) was an English poet, one of a group of lively and somewhat political British fin de siècle poets. She published a novel in 1878, and became a Catholic convert in the following decade.

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Thomas Westwood the fishing writer was a friend. Probyn is buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Mortlake.

Works

  • Once! Twice! Thrice! and Away! A Novel. (1878).
  • Robert Tresilian. A Story (1880)
  • Who Killed Cock Robin? (1880)
  • Poems (1881)
  • A Ballad of the Road, and Other Poems (1883.)
  • Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.

    References

    May Probyn Wikipedia