Augusta Webster

Augusta Webster (1837–1894), born Julia Augusta Davies, was an English poet, dramatist and essayist, and a supporter of women's suffrage who served on the London School Board. Her volumes include Dramatic Studies (1866), A Woman Sold and Other Poems (1867) and Portraits (1870).

She is admired for her dramatic monologues, among them “Circe”, which gives the enchantress her own voice; it and “English Stornelli” are in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).