Surname: Procter Forename(s): Adelaide Anne b. 30 October 1825. d. 2 February 1864. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, philanthropist, feminist. Pseudonyms: “A. A. P.,” “Mary Berwick,” “Miss Berwick.”
Member of the Langham Place group. Involved with the Victoria Press, including founding
the English Woman’s Journal and editing The Victoria Regia (1861). Member of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women. Submitted
poems regularly to Household Words under the pseudonym Mary Berwick, so that Dickens would not accept her work because
of his friendship with her father, Bryan Waller Procter; Dickens discovered her identity
late in 1854 (Lohrli 404-5). Converted to Catholicism by 1851. Volumes of poetry include
Legends and Lyrics (1858), Legends and Lyrics, Series Two (1861), and A Chaplet of Verses (1862). Biographical information: ODNB, Orlando. (SMM, AC)