Checklist of Mary Smith Letters, Essays, and Poems in the Carlisle Examiner 1865-73 and the Carlisle Journal 1874-85
Poems
“Eden.”
“Among Westmere’s uplands barren, / Oft when the southern breeze’s [sic] blow,” 27 March 1874, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M.
“In Memoriam.”
“Last New Year’s tide good wishes passed / From mouth to mouth with cheerful sound,” 1 October 1875, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S.
“Summer Shadows.”
“Here in the sun I stand to-day,” 25 August 1876, “Poet’s Corner,” [can’t see page number but probably 6], signed M. S., Carlisle.
“Late Autumn.”
“The basket has been filled again,” 24 November 1876, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6, signed M. S., Finkle Street, Carlisle.
“Ready, Aye Ready. A Poetical Homily for the New Year.”
“Ready, aye Ready’s a motto for brave men,” 19 January 1877, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Primroses.”
“Flowers of the poor—sweet orphans of the waste--,” 13 April 1877, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Carlisle.
“Thole Hard. Scottish Legend.”
“Talk no more of golden ages/ In some old forgotten time,” 18 May 1877, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The Voices of the Year.”
“Pure heart of time, as true as light,/ True as the light that shines within,” 7 Decembrr 1877, “The Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S.
“Attempts.”
Epigraph: “If we meet no gods it is because we harbour none.”
“Youth should still aspire/ Seeking great things still,” 1 February 1878, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way. A Lyric of Labour.”
“Where there’s a will there’s a way!” 9 March 1878, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Youth and Fortune.”
“If Fortune bring nothing but trouble/ And thwart every wish and desire,” 26 July 1878, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“God Helps Those Who Help Themselves. Old Proverb.”
“A brave man asks no favour,/ No fee that he does not earn;” 6 September 1878, “Poet’s Corner, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Point De Faiblesse. (‘No weakness.’—Danton.)”
“‘Point de faibless,’ nothing of weakness,/ Better than weakness, a daring divine,” 15 November 1878, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S. Finkle Street.
“To the New Year, 1879.”
“O blest New Year, bring, bring us peace, / Let thy sweet bells upon the air,” 3 January 1979, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“A Shakespearean Homily. ‘Act well your part, there all the honour lies.’”
“Not to-day nor to-morrow,/ But every day of thy life,” 7 March 1879, “Poet’s Corner, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Welcome to the Sun After a Severe Winter--1879.”
“Welcome, sweet sun! from regions of the night/ Too long stern winter’s bondage have we borne,” 14 March 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Welcome to Spring.”
“Joy of the year, the welcome, the thrice blest,/ The weary earth has waited long for thee--,” 18 April 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“May Again.”
“May has greened the bough again/ After all the frost;” 30 May 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“On Hearing the Curfew in Oxfordshire.”
15 August 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Summer, 1879.”
“O blessed, blessed summer sweet!/ We’ve waited for thee long--,” 12 September 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The Man.”
“Who shall bring blessing/ Gladness possessing,” 10 October 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6.
Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The Past and Present.”
“We frame ten thousand excuses,” 24 October 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Fisher Street.
“Make Hay While the Sun Shines. To Youth.”
“Make hay while the sun shines: to-morrow/ Is an acre [?] we never may tread;” 21 November 1879, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Winter.”
“Here’s quaking winter here again/ In his ermine coat,” 19 Decemer 189, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Another New Year.”
“O glad New Year! We hail thee blest; Hope on her white wings comes with thee;” 2 January 1880, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S.
“Trust Thyself: A Modern Motto.”
27 February 1880, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed, M. S. Finkle Street.
“Nature’s Teaching.”
“Nature is cheery, / Never aweary,/ She hides in her heart every glint of the sun;” 16 April 1880, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Be Just and Fear Not.”
“The shadow of man’s darker self,/ Fear, follows him alway,” 7 May 1880, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S.
“Courage.”
“The counseller best to be trusted,/ The friend that is faithful always,” 28 May 1880, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Fragrant Flowers.”
“Give not fairest flowers to me,” 17 September, 1880, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
[can’t read scan]
Ends: “Which gladdens all humanity,” 7 January 1881. [prob. “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6] Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Omne Haste, Omne Waste. A German Proverb.”
“Not today as yesterday,/ But still on and on,” 4 February 1881, Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Spring.”
“Cheerful spring has come again:” 29 April 1881, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“To the Columbine.”
“Sweet columbine, I never see/ Thy flower of simple modesty,” “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6, 8 July 1881. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Home.”
“Here everything that meets my eyes,/ From the long grass to the blue sky,” 19 August 1881, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“A Lay Sermon on Cheerfulness.”
“Never go gloomy and sad in life’s battle, / Stand with the brave in the dust and the din--,” 7 October 1881, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The Farmer’s Garden.”
“Only common flowers grew there,/ Southernwood and roses fair,” 25 November 1881, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“‘Ich Dien’—I Serve: A Motto”
“Noble motto ‘I serve,’ to bear,” 10 February 1882, “Poet’s Corner, p. 6. Signed M. S. Finkle Street.
“Spring Flowers.”
“O blessed flowers of springtime sweet,/ Gladdening and brightening at our feet;” 17 March, 1882, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“May.”
“May, say what you will, is sweet/ Still to wandering youthful feet,” 2 June 1882, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“White Roses.”
“Gaudy hues and colours fair,/ Give to those who for them care;” 14 July 1882, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Ethelflead, the Mercean Queen.”
“Through the dim centuries storied, blest/ With tale of hero and of saint,” 1 September 1882, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., 8, Finkle Street.
“The Robin’s Song in September.”
“What would’st thou teach me, Robin,/ With thy song so sweet and clear,” 13 October 1882, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The Apple Gathering.”
“Sweet pictures pass before my mine/ When Autumn leaves begin to fall,” 17 November 1882, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Dark Days.”
“Days may be dark, but a spirit that’s fair,/ With no cloud on the light that is in it,” 12 January 1883, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The New Year’s --- [illegible].”
“[illegible/ Upon the wintry [illeg] sky,” 5 January 1883, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Years Ago.”
“Years ago as now to-day,” “Poet’s Corner,” 31 August 1883, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Harvest Time.”
“O pleasant harvest time! To me,” “Poet’s Corner,” 21 September 1883, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“To a Polyanthus Late in November.”
“Brave bearer of the pelting hail,” “Poet’s Corner,” 30 September 1883, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The New Year.—1884.”
“Another year, a year of good,” “Poet’s Corner,” 4 January, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Spring Pictures—Lengthening Days.”
“I hear the sound of the children,” “Poet’s Corner,” 7 March 1884, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“After the Dark.”
“After the dark and the storm and the rain,” 21 March 1884, p. 6, “Poet’s Corner,” p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Sympathy.”
“A prince lies on his bier today,” “Poet’s Corner,” 18 April 1884, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street. [Refers to death of Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria’s son, who died 28 March 1884]
“A Summer Scene: Oxfordshire.”
“O blessed summer morning sweet; again,” “Poet’s Corner,” 15 August 1884, p. 6. Signed M. S.
“Gladstone’s Axe.”
“Hewer strong, and brave, and bold,” “Poet’s Corner,” 26 September 1884, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“October.”
“O! pale October, soft thy suns,” “Poet’s Corner,” 7 November 1884, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“The New Year.”
“Through endless time the years unfold,” “Poet’s Corner,” 2 January 1885, p. 6. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“Early Spring.”
Thank God for spring! for the green buds again,” “Poet’s Corner,” 27 February 1885, p. 6. Signed M. S., February 24.
59 poems in Carlisle Journal, none of which are in her prior volumes
Poems from the Carlisle Examiner, 1865-76
“Lines on Receiving a Portrait of the Late Washington Wilks.”
“A living presence seems my house within,” 28 January 1865. Signed M. S., 16, Finkle Street.
“Spring’s Welcome.”
“The spring is come, the welcome Spring,” 4 April 1865, Signed M. S. , 16 Finkle Street.
“Cobden.”
“Another, yet another Great One’s gone;” 15 April 1865. Signed M. S. [can’t see if there is an address]
“’Tis Christmas”
“’Tis Christmas! Onc again the hall,” 23 December 1865. Sgined M. S., 16, Finkle Street.
“Lengthening Days.”
“There’s a New Face at My Window,” 8 February 1873. Signed M. S., Finkle Street. [can’t read number which seems a single digit]
“Resurgam”
“Strong life of Nature, like Christ’s friend,/ Who lay four days in Bethany,” 22 April 1876.
None of the six poems listed were published in her 1860 or 1873 volume.
Letters to the Editor of the Carlisle Journal
1876
“To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal,” 22 December 1876. Signed M. S.
Advocates that the proposed Moore memorial take the form of a still needed public park. [George Moore was a wealthy businessman noted for his charities, and a George Moore Memorial Hall was built in 1879.]
1878
“Seats for the Sauceries,” 8 February 1878. Signed M. S.
She is pleased that a proposal to build a church in this open area near the river and castle has been rejected, for true religion must be lived in one’s deeds. Also “well, too, will it be for the world when religion and nature shall clasp hands. . . .” All persons need the benefit of nature and places to enjoy walks. The area needs seats, however, and moreover it could be benefitted by “raising up the parts subject to flood, and filling up some of the hollows that harbour the water.” She also suggest that Carlisle might be improved by a Museum, Free Library, and an open public ground or park.
“The Trees on the Sauceries.” [Date unclear, prob.] 19 August 1878 or 1879. Signed M. S.
She is concerned that horses are feeding on and destroying trees growing beside the paths on the Sauceries. She notes that the “police and the shepherd who have so strenuously pursued the poor children through all this golden summer weather, guarding them from the greensward and the vital air of the field,” are neglecting to protect the trees from the predations of horses.
“To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal,” 13 September 1878. Signed Z.
Smith protests the removal of a school for young children, St. James, far from the city center and into a wealthier area where many poor children cannot attend. She believes that “it is well for those who ride in chariots to think now and then of the ills which wound their brethren, and especially not to try the heart of patience, speechless patience, and good will too much, nor put stumbling blocks in the way of the duty to their onerous offspring, leaving their delinquencies to be scored off before the magistrate by prison or fine, thus setting class against class as the world has done too long by legal injustice, while the meeker part of the poor lose through the same injustice faith in humanity, and sometimes faith in God too. . . . “ She feels that English school boards have spent extravagantly, and that although the Carlisle one spends less, this absurd plan should be opposed. “This is all the more necessary now when trade is bad and the complications of the past war still hang on the horizon darkening the future of hope and making the wiser minds of our country suffer in prospect of the heavy retribution which awaits us as a nation on account of the crime and bloodshed which have resulted from the selfish and unrighteous ambition of our reckless rulers.” Further, “I would wish also that all schools, especially Board schools, should be detached from churches, so that perfect freedom of action as far ass possible should be guaranteed to the teachers in all that related to matters of conscience, creed, and religion.”
[She is blunter and angrier under the pseudonym Z.]
“Suggestions for a Future Drink Bill.” 25 October 1878. Signed M. S.
Since a temperance bill is being considered, she hopes its author will include some punishment for habitual drunkards who neglect their children: “Every day these little grey-white faces may been seen about the streets making pitiful hearts ache. . . for these poor outcasts, famished and neglected in mind and morals, must necessarily become wicked, the prey of every demon that beguiles humanity by sense, by sloth, or by sin.” Animals are better protected from cruelty (by laws mandating that they be killed swiftly), for “the drunkard may kill every child that is born to him by neglect and want. . . .” She writes in the hope that her words may help “to guide the public mind to the duty of thought and action in a matter so incontestably worthy of both.”
“A Hint to the Temperance Workers,” 5 November 1878. Signed M. S.
She suggests that temperance workers could use a portable coffee stall on wheels to provide coffee to working people near their workplaces and the market, after the manner of one she has seen used in Oxfordshire. In all instances of reform, “[i]ndividual effort . . . has ever been the precursor of Parliamentary action where the real liberties and moral welfare of the people has been concerned.”
“Moral Grit on Slippery Paths,” 20 December 1878. Signed M. S.
Just as the city uses sand or grit to prevent slipping in the snow, it should “use the moral grit of coffee shops and cocoa taverns” to prevent slipping “on the broad and slippery paths of temptation to drink.” Especially during the winter when many children starve, the city should put aside the interests of the purveyors of alcohol in favor of the rights of the people. She notes in an aside that the country’s foreign policy is similarly devoted to “sensationalism and prestige in our Imperial policy, (alas for our poor country!).” [Have lost end of this so cannot see what she advocates—probably restrictions on the sale of whiskey.]
[This seems her first letter to allude to foreign policy, though tangentially.]
“Hard Times and Cheap Living,” 24 December 1878. Signed M. S.
Smith thinks that in hard times the rations given to the poor should include potatoes, which are more nourishing than the tea and red herring often eaten by the poor. This leads to thoughts on the need for cooking and good household management in women. Sometimes hard times helps “developing energies and activities in men and women in proportion to their emergencies and sorrows.” Economy and thrift are needed virtues; and indeed George Moore ate oatmeal, potatoes, and bacon. The diet of townspeople needs to be simpler and more nutritious.
After commenting on the present dark and uncertain times, Smith then switches topic to deplore the national war: “We have as a nation sided with tyranny and injustice, and as a nation have dipped our hands in the blood of the innocent, scattering death and desolation over a peaceful country and among a harmless pastoral people whose sovereign had wrought us no wrong, and in the name of Christ have done the deeds of demons.” Instead as a nation we have sought “Prestige.”
1879
“Way to Wealth,” 1 January 1879, p. 6.
“Nonconformist Strictures on the War.” 10 January 1879, p. 6. Signed Z. [Second Afghan War]
“The Way to Wealth.” 24 January 1879. Signed Z.
“The Utility of Penny Banks in Schools.” 31 January 1879. Signed M. S.
Advocates these as inculcating habits of thrift in children.
“Cookery and Domestic Economy,” 14 March 1879. Signed M. S.
“Cookery—Cheap Dinners for Working Men and Women,” 25 March 1879. Signed M. S.
“These Twenty-Three Thousand,” 15 April 1879. Signed Z.
“The Premier’s Golden Wreath and the Working Man,” 13 May 1879. Signed M. S.
[war]
1880
“To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal,” 19 March, 1880. Signed Z.
Criticizes the meretricious emptiness of military costumes of the “Death and Glory Boys,” and of the dishonesty of Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli). Is incensed at the criticism of the good and noble John Bright. “This is a time when working men, above all others, should know their friends., . . . who are . . . dauntlessly daring to . . . shield them from a torrent of taxation which must inevitably result form these horrible wars. . . . Another seven years of Tory rule would ruin this rich country and blast nearly all our fortunes, for let us all remember that every one of those slain thousands in Africa and in Afghanistan has an avenger. . . .” She urges “all Christian men and women” to fight a warfare “against the enemies of our country, its Tory rulers. . . .”
[This seems an election speech.]
“Nuisances.” [date not on printout—follows 16 April 1880?] Signed by M.
[Not certain if this is Smith, but the sarcasm, moralism, and condemnation of waste are consonant with her other statements.]
Responds with sarcasm to the Mayor’s claim that dogs were becoming a nuisance in the city. What is a nuisance to one is a benefit to others and vice versa. In particular, “the booth recently erected in the market place [which the Mayor has permitted] is justly considered a rank nuisance.”
“Juvenile Offenders.” 2 November 1880. Signed M. S.
Dissolute habits of parents are a source of juvenile depravity. Children are beaten, starved, and otherwise ill-used by drunken parents. “And Christian people in this Christian country allow this,--allow poor children to be tortured and starved into a life of crime!” “[W]e ought as a nation to make some law to restrain the cruel conduct of such parents. . . We lay the flattering unction to our souls respecting our improvements, but it were perhaps wiser to study some of the surer signs of the times. . . . The wrongs of the poor have wrought revolutions ere now—they will do it gain if not wisely heeded.
“Thrift—A Legitimate Source of Wealth.” 3 December 1880.
In winter seasons which press heavily on the poor, “everything possible should be done to induce thrift in the households of the working classes.” She commends the Quaker women who are “the most graceful of ladies and the most intelligent of women,” and who attend personally to their business. . . .” Another model is Wordsworth: “Plain living and high thinking’ was his motto, and his genius grew to divinity on this—the worthy peer of Milton and Shakespeare, and he saved out of his literary labours an honourable independency.” [Actually he had received a post office job from the government.]
1881
“A Literary Society for Carlisle,” 4 January 1881. [Can’t see signature on scan.]
“The War in South Africa,” 15 March 1881. Signed M. S.
“Selling Drink to Children,” 8 April 1881. Signed Sigma.
“The Adulteration Act,” 1 April 1881. Signed Z
“Shakespeare in the North,” 12 August 1881. Signed M. S.
“Burns in Westminster,” 21 October 1881. Signed M. S.
1882
“To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal,” 3 February 1882. Signed M. S.
[on temperance Local Option bill]
Opposes a measure proposed by Sir Wilfrid Lawson which she believes will fail to control the alcohol trade since local populations may be influenced by “the influences and interests of the hour.” She hopes for any remedy which will limit alcohol sales, for “[w]orse than the opium traffic, which it is now becoming the fashion so loudly to denounce, drink destroys the vitality of the physical frame as well as dethrones man’s reason. . . . ”
“The Egyptian War,” 15 August 1882. Signed Sigma.
“The Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Bill,” Signed M. S.
“Political Responsibility,” 10 November 1882. Signed Sigma.
1883
“Religious Education,” 9 February 1883. Signed Sigma.
“The Museum and Its Claims,” 27 April 1883. Signed M. S.
“Temperance Hotels and Stabling,” 25 May 1883. Signed M. S., Finkle Street.
“To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal,” 8 June 1883. Signed M. S.
On temperance hotels.
“The Factory Act and Women Workers,” 11 September 1883. Signed M. S.
Opposes protective laws which would have eliminated women’s jobs. “To women workers should be granted the same freedom as to men workers, and the privilege of gaining something additional, if able to undertake it, conceded to them as well as to men. . . . the injustice of legislating for women without their guidance and counsel and without allowing them (as workers) equal privileges with men is a scandal and an inhumanity to women. . . . The fact is that we want a greater number of bona fide workers in Parliament. . . To this end let all look forward to the future election before us and decide to act with those whose end is the good of the people and the unrestricted commerce of our country. . . . ”
“Some of the Conclusions of the Leeds Conference,” 2 November, 1883. Signed M. S.
Expresses happiness at the recent affirmation of women’s equality and right to the vote by the “advanced Liberals of England.” She alludes to St. Augustine and George Fox as predecessors, then states that the vote will not only confer protection but enable women “to fight for that better and wiser social legislation which shall more effectually repress social crime and youthful vices. . . .” Women have led in social movements: “Josephine Butler went through the legalized dens of uncleanness and vice before Mr. Stansfield uplifted the white flag in women’s defence in the House of Commons.. . . Let us hope that when woman shares with man in the Parliamentary franchise, she will . . . help to lead up the triumph of those great Liberal principles which irresolute politicians have so long obstructed . . . .”
1884
“The ‘First Foot,’” 11 January 1884. Signed M. S.
Describes herself as “Being a native of the south of England and born of a Puritan family, where ‘luck and chance were always considered as two articles of the fool’s creed.’” She deplores the prevalence of superstitions, including one concerning a “first foot” at the new year. “These things prove the barbaric element is amongst us yet, and that, despite of our education and Christianity, there is a streak of the Berserker in us yet.” She also disapproves of ostentatious entertainments: “Better were it to believe in simplicity of living and doing right than making a position which is often false and which in reality nobody honours.”
“The Sale of Intoxicants to the Young,” 1 February, 1884, can’t see signature to confirm.
Affirms Mr. Christie’s opposition to juvenile drinking, noting that many refuse to see its pervasiveness. “Would our great King Alfred a thousand years ago have beheld the sight I did on a Sunday night without at once determining on the thing being forthwith abolished for the good of his country, and for the well-being and advancement of his subjects.”
“The Bishop of Carlilse and Woman’s Suffrage,” 12 September 1884. Signed M. S.
Thanks the Anglican bishop Dr. Goodwin for his public support of women’s suffrage, and adds her arguments: “their friends of the male sex, acting without their voice of concurrence, often unwittingly or in spite of their persistent appeals, do them great injury. But we trust the two million new voters which are now to be enfranchised will demand the vote for women. . . . ”
“The Bishop’s Speech at the Women’s Meeting,” 14 October 1884. Signed M. S.
Praises the Anglican Bishop’s speech to an audience of women commending their special moral traits and responsibilities, since they are “mostly the source and centre of the moral life of families.” She then adds a long disquisition on the importance of morality rather than doctrine: “As for doctrines, they are ever changing, and while you plead for Calvin or eternal punishment, and in your thoughtless zeal libel the blessed pitiful Father of all, they are gone, the world’s better sense has weighed them in the scale of all-loving nature and found them wanting, and fosters a better and more filial belief . . . ”
“The Women Voters of Carlisle,” 25 November 1884. Signed M. S.
Defends women voters in city elections against the charge that they have not used the vote wisely. Some need explanations of the respective party positions: “I tell them, also, that the Liberals have for the most part helped to make better laws from women, and that they have been laughed at and reviled for speaking for them an claiming justice and right of freedom for them; the Conservatives wishing to conserve or keep everything just as it is, no change for the better, no ding away with laws that injure the common people. . . . ” She notes recent political arguments between “Blue and Yellow spinsters and matrons” in the city [could be colors of suffrage and anti-suffrage factions?], and notes that Carlisle women claim what “the 800,000 women who marched in the procession at the Bristol demonstration claimed, that is, ‘justice to all.’”
1885
“The War in the Soudan,” 20 March 1885. Signed M. S.
“The Cuckoo and Nightingale in Surrey,” 8 May 1885. Signed M. S., Petersham Park.