Victorian

Emily Pfeiffer

1827–1890


Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827–1890), born Emily Davis, was an English-language poet who published Poems (1876), Songs and Sonnets (1880) and Under the Aspens (1882), and wrote on the position of women. She married Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer in 1853.

She left money in her will for the higher education of women. Five of her poems appear in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).

  1. “Peace to the Odalisque”
  2. Evolution
  3. To Nature
  4. When the Brow of June
  5. A Song of Winter
  6. To a Moth that drinketh of the Ripe October
  7. To the Herald Honeysuckle

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