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  The Poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter

  Adelaide Anne Proctor

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  Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London.  Her literary career began whilst still a teenager.  Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round before being later published in book form. 
  A voracious reader, Procter was largely self-taught, though she did study at Queen's College in Harley Street in 1850.  Her interest in poetry grew from an early age.  
  By 1853 she was submitting pieces to Dickens's Household Words under her pseudonym Mary Berwick, electing that this way her work would be judged for its own worth rather than on the friendship between her father and Dickens.  Dickens didn’t learn of her true identity for over a year.  
  ‘Ministering Angels’ was to be the beginning of a long and mutually beneficial relationship of publishing in Dickens’ journals that would eventually reach 73 poems in House words together with a further 7 poems in All the Year Round, most of which were collected and later published into her first two volumes of poetry, both entitled Legends and Lyrics.   
  Procter was also the editor of the journal Victoria Regia, which became the showpiece of the Victoria Press, a venture hoping to promote the employment of women in all manner of trades and professions.  
  Procter’s health failed in 1862. Dickens and others suggested that this illness was due to her extensive and exhausting schedule of charity work.  
  An attempt to improve her health by taking a cure at Malvern failed.  
  Adelaide Anne Procter died on 3rd February 1864 of tuberculosis. She had been bed-ridden for almost a year. Procter was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

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  What is the Custom of Your...

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

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  What is the Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker features an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.
  The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
  Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Rose Lewenstein and April De Angelis.

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  Unscorched (NHB Modern Plays)

  Luke Owen

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  A courageous and convincing play that sensitively tackles the important subject of child abuse.
  Tom works in digital analysis, investigating crimes against children. Faced with watching recordings of the most unforgiveable acts on a daily basis, in a job that barely anyone else can endure, he struggles to retain his humanity.
  Meeting Emily might just mean that his life has changed for the better, but when your entire working day is spent watching horrific crimes, how do you find room for love?
  Unscorched was the winner of the 2013 Papatango New Writing Competition in partnership with the Finborough Theatre, London, where it premiered in October 2013.
  'an amazing debut... a sensitive and thought-provoking portrayal of a difficult subject' WhatsOnStage
  'an intelligent piece... strikes a strong balance between humour and a more complex examination of the process of desensitisation' The Times
  'a cracker... admirably crafted' Time Out

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  Adam (NHB Modern Plays)

  Frances Poet

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  If you are born in a country where being yourself can get you killed, exile is your only choice.
  Frances Poet's play Adam is the remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that choice and begin his journey. It charts Adam's progress from Egypt to Scotland, across borders and genders, in his search for a place to call home.
  The play was first performed by the National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017. It was directed by Cora Bissett, with music by Jocelyn Pook.

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  Seoul-Mates

  Pamela Q. Fernandes

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  Jilted by the man she followed to Seoul, Katia has hit rock bottom. Within months, her whirlwind romance and marriage to Jihan has everyone talking. 
  Jihan is the heir to the Kwan business empire while Katia is a foreigner, an Anglo-Indian who has no business ensnaring Seoul’s most eligible bachelor.  
  Together in chic, metropolitan Seoul the two forge a relationship that is tested by intrigue, jilted lovers and a hidden nemesis. 
  Can their newfound love survive the forces against them? 
  Or will the vows they took be in vain? 
  A sweet romance novella set in Korea for all the Hallyu lovers.

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  The Great Poets: Lord Byron

  Lord Byron

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  Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of intense, brooding passion. He was the most famous literary man of his time, and his poetry, endlessly witty and often insightful, was immensely popular and hugely influential. From the delicate romanticism of She Walks in Beauty to the evocative reflections of So We’ll Go No More a Roving, Byron’s poems were unrivalled in their power and potency. Lesser-known poems such as Destruction of Sennacherib, a reimagining of the biblical story of Sennacherib, Prometheus, a sardonic poem about the Greek gods, and Darkness, an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth, also included here, reveal Byron to be a poet of great range and variety. ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Lord Byron was without equal in English literature.

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