Leith, Emily (F)

Surname: Leith
Forename(s): Emily
b. 4 November 1843. d. 26 September 1940. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet and translator. Pseudonym: 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)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 20
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
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