Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was an English poet, born in Bloomsbury, London. She lived for most of her life with her sister and her mother, in straitened circumstances, and published only two books of poems in her lifetime.

The Farmer’s Bride (1916; enlarged in 1921) won the admiration of Thomas Hardy and other poets and made her reputation. Her poems are dramatic and irregular, with voices ranging from a Devon farmer to a nun and a grieving lover. She died in 1928.