Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1883 – 1 May 1947), an English-Australian poet who was a pioneer of modernist poetry. She was a friend of other writers of the time, such as D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Katherine Mansfield and Dylan Thomas. Wickham lived a transnational, unconventional life, moving between Australia, England and France. She is remembered as a feminist writer.

Quotes

• It is well within the order of things
  That man should listen when his mate sings;
  But the true male never yet walked
  Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
  • "The Affinity", st. 4, in The Contemplative Quarry (London, 1915), p. 16