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Bookmark or Share- About | Michael FieldMichael Field is the pseudonym of two women writers, Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913). The women co-composed eight volumes of poetry and 27 verse-dramas, as well as two-dozen volumes of journals entitled Works and Days.
- One Name, Two Writers: The Story of Michael FieldTheir real names were Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913). Michael Field was their joint pen name, and history can thank their fellow poet Robert Browning for outing them. Word of their secret slipped out after they had confided in him.
- Michael Field in Their Time and Ours - University of TulsaThe daughter of a tobacco merchant who died when she was two, she enjoyed financial and intellectual autonomy from an early age. After her mother’s death in 1868, she advanced her education by attending the Collège de France and Newnham College at Cambridge.
- Inventing Michael Field | The Poetry FoundationSome 125 years ago, a new playwright named Michael Field created a buzz among London literati with the print debut of two blank-verse dramas in a single volume: the ancient Greek Callirrhoë and the English historical Fair Rosamund.
- Michael Field | The Poetry FoundationUnder the pseudonym Michael Field, Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece Edith Emma Cooper collaboratively published eight books of poetry and twenty-seven plays in late 19th-century Britain.
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