Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Alternative signature: “A. Ruth Young.” Educated at Oxford High School. Learned typewriting and shorthand at the Ladies Shorthand Association. Employed as the private secretary at the British Women’s Emigration Association. Co-founder of the Shorthand Writers and Typists Association (1902) and eventually became the honorary secretary. Author of several volumes of poetry including Verses (1904), The Philanthropists, and Other Poems (1909), and The Water Carrier of Venice (1911). Biographical information: BL; F. W. Pethick Lawrence and Joseph Edwards, editors, The Reformer’s Year Book, second edition, 1906, p. 155. (CC)