Field, Michael

Canute the Great: The Great Cup of Water. [1887]; The Tragic Mary. 1890, cover design by Selwyn Image, collector's box; Stephania: a trialogue. 1892, collector's box; Sight and Song. 1892, one of 400 copies, collector's box; Underneath the Bough: a book of verses. 1893, one of 150 copies; the trade edition also; A Question of Memory a Play...1893, limited to 120 copies, RARE, short autograph letter by the author loosely inserted, preserved in folding box; Noontide Branches...Oxford, 1899, one of 150 copies, rebound in quarter leather; Wild Honey. 1908; Poems of Adoration. [1912]; together with 6 others, including first editions of The Father's Tragedy... and Mystic Trees; and Some Letters from Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon to 'Michael Field'. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1979, no.7 of 20 copies on hand-made paper (out of an edition of 145), in case and slipcase; and a typescript from 1915; 8vo, chiefly first editions, original cloth bindings except where stated (18)

Dr G. Krishnamurti, ed., The Eighteen-Nineties. A Literary Exhibition, National Book League, 1973; Women Writers of the 1890s, Sotheran's, 1991

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'Michael Field' was the pseudonym of Katherine Bradley and Emma Cooper.

Of the first work Oscar Wilde wrote: "it is extremely dramatic, and its method is admirably suited to express those swift touches of nature and sudden flashes of thought which are Michael Field's distinguishing qualities" (Woman's World, 1888, p.181)