May Kendall
May Kendall (1861 – ?1943) was an English poet, novelist, and satirist. She is best known as the co-author of the novel That Very Mab and the poetry collections Dreams to Sell and Songs from Dreamland.
Possibly her most anthologized poem, Lay of the Trilobite, is a satire of the popular English response to Darwin's evolutionary theory.
In 1895 Kendall gave up professional writing in order to more fully devote her life to social reform. [1]
Works
- (with Andrew Lang) That Very Mab (1885)
- Dreams to Sell (1887)
- Songs from Dreamland (1894)
- Turkish Bonds (1895)
- (with Benjamin Rowntree) How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem (1913)
Notes
- ^ Maltz, Diana. "Sympathy, Humor, and the Abject Poor in the Word of May Kendall." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 50. 3 (2007), 313-332.