Watson, Rosamund Marriott (F)

Surname: Watson
Forename(s): Rosamund Marriott
b. 6 October 1860. d. 29 December 1911. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and journalist. Née Ball. Pseudonyms: Graham R. Tomson, Graham Tomson, G. R. T., R. Armytage, B., and C. Born in Hackney, London, and educated at home. Closely connected to London literary circles. President of the “Literary Ladies” group. Married twice: to George Francis Armytage on 9 September 1879, then Arthur Graham Tomson on 21 September 1886, afterwards living with H. B. Marriott Watson from 1894. Editor of Sylvia’s Journal (1893-1894). Contributor to Yellow Book, Scot’s Observer, and Athenaeum. Author of several volumes of poetry including The Bird-Bride: A Volume of Ballads and Sonnets (1889) and Vespertilia, and Other Verses (1891). Bibliographic information: ODNB , Orlando. (AC, SCM, NM)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 40
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Ballade of Asphodel 1887-07 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18785
Ballade of a Fair Impenitent 1887-08 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18790
Ballade of the Flight of Nicolette 1887-09 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18792
Scythe Songs. I 1887-09 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18793
Petit Chanson Picard 1887-09 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18796
After the Fire 1887-10 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18801
Ballade of Betty Barnes, the Book-Burner 1887-12 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18814
The Broidered Bodice. 1600 (Old French) 1888-01 Longman’s Magazine Translator 18817
Arsinoë’s Cats 1888-03 Longman’s Magazine Translator 18821
Märchen 1888-05 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18827
Deid Folks’ Ferry 1888-06 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18835
The Cruel Priest 1888-09 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18844
The Aubade 1888-09 Longman’s Magazine Translator 18845
Fleur-de-Lys 1888-10 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18851
Birds of Passage. (“A lost chance flies owre the sea”) 1888-11 Woman’s World Poet 657
The Fairies’ Cobbler 1889-02 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18861
The Quick and the Dead 1889-03 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18865
The Singing Reeds. Founded on an Italian Conte Populaire 1889-09 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18888
In Picardy 1889-09 Woman’s World Poet 678
The Baboushka. A Ballad of Christmas 1889-12 Atalanta Poet 1957
A Vigil 1889-12 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18895
The Nightingale’s Children 1890-03 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18907
An Enchanted Princess 1890-05 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18915
Transformation 1890-08 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18923
A Ballad of the Were-Wolf 1890-09 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14850
A New Year Fantasy 1891-01 Atalanta Poet 2061
Two Songs 1891-02 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18940
Lavender and Pansies 1891-06 Atalanta Poet 2082
The Golden Hour 1892-04 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18981
Sunset on Henna Cliff 1892-11 Longman’s Magazine Poet 19001
Vespertilia 1895-01 The Yellow Book Poet 792
II—The Isle of Voices 1895-04 The Yellow Book Poet 10289
I—Requiescat 1895-04 The Yellow Book Poet 804
The Golden Touch 1895-07 The Yellow Book Poet 815
The House Desolate 1895-10 The Yellow Book Poet 823
Aubade 1896-01 The Yellow Book Poet 992
D’Outre tombe 1896-07 The Yellow Book Poet 1007
The Song of Songs 1897 Pageant Poet 1127
Children of the Mist 1897-01 The Yellow Book Poet 1023
Oasis 1897-04 The Yellow Book Poet 1034