![]() ![]() ![]() Their best-known work draws sensuously and erotically on pagan classical themes: their most respected collections are Long Ago (1889), which retells the story of Sappho, and Sight and Song (1892), which pairs their poems with paintings viewed on their frequent European travels. They produced more than twenty volumes of verse drama and poetry. They attended University College, Bristol, together in the late 1870s, studying classics and philosophy.īradley published first under the pseudonym of Arran Leigh together she and Cooper adopted the name ‘Michael Field’ with the publication of Callirrhoë Fair Rosamund (1884). Born in Birmingham and educated in Paris and at Newnham College, Cambridge, Bradley became deeply attached to her invalid sister’s daughter Edith (born in Kenilworth). Michael Field was a pseudonym used by Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913) to publish their poetry and plays. ![]()
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