Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, translator, novelist, and editor. Pseudonym: “M. M. H.” Born c. 1820. Advocate of women’s education and employment opportunities. Prolific periodical contributor. Author of the novel Helen Stanley (1846). Translator and editor of The Works of George Sand (1847) with Eliza A. Ashurst. Translator of Fadette (1851). Lived in a partnership with Charlotte Cushman, whom she meet after a brief attempt at a career on the stage. They travelled together around the United States, London, and Rome (1849-1857). Returned to London alone and founded English Woman’s Journal with Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, but was forced out in 1864. Co-founder of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women and the Victoria Press. Entered into a relationship with Adelaide Procter in the early 1860s until the latter’s death in 1864. Began receiving a pension from the Royal Literary Fund in 1866. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)