Browne, Marie Hedderwick (F)

Surname: Browne
Forename(s): Marie Hedderwick
b. 1857. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet and songwriter. Born in Ireland. Daughter of the writer John Hedderwick, from Glasgow, and the niece of editor and publisher James Hedderwick. Spent her childhood mostly in Glasgow. Married in 1879 and moved to London. Contributed to London Society, Atalanta, Chambers’s, and The Girl’s Own Paper. Her songs were often set to music. Author of A Spray of Lilac, And Other Poems and Songs (1892). Biographical information: David Herschell Edwards, Modern Scottish Poets, D. H. Edwards, 1891, pp. 105-6; Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 70. (SP, AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 24
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
In an Old Churchyard 1889-04-27 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13081
Buried Treasures 1889-06-22 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13090
Dolly’s Garden 1890-02 Atalanta Poet 1971
Secrets 1890-06-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13147
Dorothy 1890-12-06 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13170
My Love of Long Ago 1891-01-03 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13174
A Summer Wooing. A Song 1891-04-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13189
By The Sea 1891-08 Atalanta Poet 2090
Memories. A Song 1893-12-09 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13326
At Last 1894-02-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13336
Youth and Love. A Song 1894-08-04 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13360
Vanquished 1894-12 Atalanta Poet 2322
With the Past 1895-01-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12598
I Want You 1895-12-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12647
Quits 1897-01-23 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12651
In Ways That We Know Not 1898 Good Words Poet 13679
Twilight in My Garden 1898-08-13 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12723
Death in Life 1899-01-07 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12548
To a Blackbird 1899-03-25 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12559
Where I Would Sleep 1900-06-30 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12453
“I Shall Go Softly All My Years” 1901 Good Words Poet 15026
Love’s Bird. A Song 1901-01-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12482
The Nightingale 1901-07-27 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12524
The Garrulous Lover 1901-09-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12531