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Anna Wickham

1883–1947


Anna Wickham (1883–1947) was the pen name of Edith Alice Mary Harper, an English poet born in Wimbledon and brought up partly in Australia. She was a member of the circle of poets around the Poetry Bookshop in London.

She published The Contemplative Quarry (1915) and The Man with a Hammer (1916), terse, outspoken verse on marriage, womanhood and the poet's calling.

  1. The Singer
  2. Reality
  3. Song

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