Surname: Phillips (née Holdsworth) Forename(s): Susan K. b. 1831. d. 25 May 1897. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, sometimes writing in the Yorkshire dialect. Pseudonym: “S. K. P.” Alternative
signatures: “S. Phillips” and “S. K. Phillips.” Daughter of Rev. George K. Holdsworth.
Born in Aldborough, North Yorkshire, frequently visited Whitby in the summers, and
lived for many years in Green Royd, Ripon. Married artist Henry Wyndham Phillips in
1856. Honorary Secretary of the Ripon Home for Girls. Author of Verses and Ballads (1865), Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire (1870), On the Seaboard and Other Poems (1878, 1879), Told in a Coble and Other Poems (1884), and The Last Poems of Susan K. Phillips (1898). Biographical information: Reilly, Late-Victorian Poetry, p. 378; William Andrews, Literary Byways, William Andrews & Co., 1898, pp. 176-80. (AC)