Agnes Grozier Herbertson (c. 1875 – 1958) was a Norwegian writer and poet who later lived in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Herbertson was born in Oslo circa 1875 to a Scots family and privately educated. She grew up in Glasgow, and later moved to Oxford[1] and then Cornwall, where she lived with her sister Jessie Leckie Herbertson.[2]

Henderson began publishing shortly after her teens, writing several fairy tales for The People's Friend circa 1895.[1] Later works included short stories for periodicals including The Windsor Magazine, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, and Little Folks Magazine, where her stories included "romantic fairy tale" "The Hop-About Man."[3] Henderson's novels include The Plowers (1906), about a woman whose scientist husband conducts inhuman experiments, and The Ship That Came Home in the Dark, about a woman who tries to take the place of a blind man's wife.[2] In a 1919 book of poems, The Quiet Heart, Henderson addresses topics including World War I; her poem "Disabled" is narrated by a wounded soldier who seeks comfort in nature.[4] Another poem, "The Seed-Merchant's Son" centers on a father whose son died in war.[5]

Herbertson died in 1958.[citation needed]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Two "People's Friend" Writers". The Evening Telegraph. 29 August 1906. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David, eds. (2005). The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198117605.
  3. ^ Kready, Laura Fry (1910). A Study of Fairy Tales. Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  4. ^ Khan, Nosheen (1988). Women's Poetry of the First World War. University Press of Kentucky.
  5. ^ "The Invisible Poets of WW1". Portsmouth Poetry. Retrieved 7 April 2023.


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