E. L.Alternative signature:
E. Leith.Born in Calcutta, and lived in London with her family from 1851 at the latest. Her father, the lawyer John Farley Leith, was from Aberdeen, and also elected an M. P. for Aberdeen. Never married. Author of Thoughts and Remembrances (1885). Published in periodicals including Every Girls' Magazine, The Family Treasury, and Cassell's Magazine. Biographical information:
Emily Leith,Modern Scottish Poets, Eighth Series (Brechin: D. H. Edwards, 1885), p. 164; Ancestry (BGL, AC)
Poem title | Date | Periodical | Roles | id # |
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Voices in the Night | 1876-01 | The Argosy | Poet | 16378 |
Nausicaa | 1876-02 | The Argosy | Poet | 16380 |
Night and Morning | 1877-07 | The Argosy | Poet | 16413 |
A Mother’s Prayer | 1877-11 | The Argosy | Poet | 16424 |
The Water-Nixie. A Swedish Legend | 1878-12 | The Argosy | Poet | 16447 |
His Sunlight | 1880-08 | The Argosy | Poet | 16479 |
Love | 1880-09 | The Argosy | Poet | 16481 |
A Valentine | 1881-02 | The Argosy | Poet | 16491 |
A Bientôt | 1882-06 | The Argosy | Poet | 16525 |
In the Cloister | 1882-07 | The Argosy | Poet | 16527 |
Blowing Bubbles | 1882-11 | The Argosy | Poet | 16534 |
Nightfall | 1883-06 | The Argosy | Poet | 16548 |
A Valentine | 1888-02 | The Argosy | Poet | 16661 |
Snowdrops | 1888-03 | Atalanta | Poet | 1767 |
The Ivory Gate | 1888-06 | Atalanta | Poet | 1777 |
The Butterflies’ Pedigree | 1889-06 | Atalanta | Poet | 1932 |
Drear November | 1889-11 | The Argosy | Poet | 16713 |
Love And Death | 1891-10 | Atalanta | Poet | 2161 |
Land and Sea. Ballade | 1894-07 | The Argosy | Poet | 16880 |
In Breton Land | 1895-07 | The Argosy | Poet | 16923 |