Constance Naden

Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden (1858–1889) was born in Birmingham, studied science at Mason College, and wrote philosophical essays as well as verse. Her collections are Songs and Sonnets of Springtime (1881) and A Modern Apostle (1887).

Her poems often take evolution and the new science as subjects, sometimes with wit. She died at thirty. Two of her poems appear in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).