Winifred Mary Letts
- Born
- 1882 · Broughton.
- Died
- 1972 · Rathcoole.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- playwright · poet · writer
- Education
- Alexandra College
- Languages
- English
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Winifred Mary Letts (1882 – 1972) was a writer.
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Winifred Mary Letts studied at Alexandra College. The recorded working language is English.
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- 1.Manchester, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813–1901 (1882), p. 57.
- 2.Dictionary of Irish Biography. np https://www.dib.ie/biography/letts-winifred-mabel-a4813.
- 3.A number of discrepancies emerge in her birthplace records. According to the 1891 England and Wales Census, Letts was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, England (Winifred Mabel Letts in household of Ernest Fredk Letts, Newton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; from 1891 England, Scotland and Wales Census, Kew, Surrey, England). The 1901 England and Wales Census attests that her birth was in Manchester, England (Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Class: RG13; Piece: 3758; Folio: 105; Page: 32). She was baptised Winifred Mabel Letts on 25 March 1882 in Manchester, and the registry lists her birthplace as Broughton (England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013). Nosheen Khan states that Letts was born in Ireland (Women's Poetry of the First World War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988, p. 184). In Irish Novels 1890–1940, her birthplace is given as County Wexford, Ireland and her place of death as Kent, England (John Wilson Foster. Irish Novels 1890–1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 109). An early anthology of poetry also lists her birthplace as Wexford, citing a birthdate of 1887 (A. Marion Merrill and Grace E. W. Sprague. Contemporary Verse : Edited with a Prologue and Notes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1925, pp. 299–306).
- 4.Letts, Winifred Mabel Dictionary of Irish Biography. www.dib.ie.
- 5.Brown, Stephen. Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-Lore. Dublin: Maunsel, 1919, p. 167.
- 6.Letts, W. M. Knockmaroon. London: J. Murray, 1933, p. 19.
- 7.Census of Ireland 1901/1911. The National Archives of Ireland
- 8.The name of the house is recorded in Physiotherapy and Masseuse Registers. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Registers. Wellcome Library, London, England.
- 9.Khan, Nosheen. Women's Poetry of the First World War. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988, pp. 123–24.
- 10.Ancestry.com. Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- 11.Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England, 1944, p. 34.
- 12.Poetry: Charming poet who found the beauty in rain. Irish Independent.
- 13.“Winfred Mabel Verschoyle.” England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995. 1973, p. 8960; Obituary: Gibbon, Monk. "Winifred M. Letts." The Irish Times (17 June 1972), p. 5.
- 14.Hayden Moore, 'Memorial plaque celebrates life of Winifred Mabel Letts', Echo.ie, 20 June 2022. https://www.echo.ie/memorial-plaque-celebrates-life-of-winifred-mabel-letts/
- 15.Meaney, Gerardine, Mary O'Dowd, and Bernadette Whelan. "Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900–60." In Reading the Irish Woman: Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714–1960, pp. 179–95. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013, p. 192.
- 16.Digital Collections. digitalcollections.tcd.ie.
- 17.“Reviews: Occasional Papers.” Norfolk Chronicle (27 August 1904), p. 2.
- 18.Winifred Letts, “The Wind’s Call”, Westminster Gazette, 29 December 1904, p. 2.
- 19.John William Cunliffe, Poems of the Great War, New York: Macmillan 1918.
- 20.Clarke, George Herbert. A Treasury of War Poetry : British and American Poems of the World War, 1914–1917. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917.
- 21.Encyclopedia Brunoniana Soldiers Memorial Gate. www.brown.edu.
- 22.Colum, Padraic, ed. 1922. Anthology of Irish Verse. www.bartleby.com.
- 23.Gillis, Stacy. ‘“Many Sisters to Many Brothers”: The Women Poets of the First World War. In Tim Kendall, ed. The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 100–113.
- 24.Virago. Scars upon my heart : women's poetry and verse of the First World War. 1981. 978-0-86068-226-4.
- 25.Haughey, Jim. ‘“The Roses are Torn”: Ireland’s War Poets'. In Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 65.
- 26.Dowson, Jane. Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910–1939: Resisting Femininity. London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2017, p. 59.
- 27.Clare, David. ‘Buried Histories (Review of Memory Ireland, Volume 1: History and Modernity, by Oona Frawley)’. James Joyce Literary Supplement, 26(2012), pp. 21–22.
- 28.Letts, Winifred. ‘My First Abbey Play.’ In E. H. Mikhail, ed. Abbey Theatre: Interviews and Recollections. Basingstoke UK: Palgrave: 1988, pp. 35–40.
- 29.The Eyes of the Blind Abbey Archives Abbey Theatre – Amharclann na Mainistreach. Abbey Theatre.
- 30.Letts, Winifred. The Challenge. Irish Theatre Institute: Playography Ireland. https://www.irishplayography.com/
- 31.Letts, Winifred. ‘The Challenge’. Irish Review, April 1912.
- 32.Winifred M. Letts (1882–1972). www.ricorso.net.
- 33.'Literary Notes'. Royal Cornwall Gazette, 9 November 1905, p. 6.
- 34.Letts, Winifred M. Knockmaroon. London: John Murray 1933. p. 166.
- 35.Winifred M. Letts (1882–1972).
- 36.Manuscript copy at Trinity College Dublin
- 37.Manuscript copy at Trinity College Dublin
- 38.See also the Ina Boyle Society
- 39.Kate Kennedy, Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 446.
- 40.Tim, an Irish Terrier LiederNet. www.lieder.net.
- 41.Boys LiederNet. www.lieder.net.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Collins, Lucy . 'Winifred Letts and the Great War: A Poetics of Witness'. In Women Writing War: Ireland 1880–1922. Tina O'Toole, Gillian Mcintosh, and Muireann O'Cinnéide, eds. Dublin: UCD Press, 2016, pp. 53–66;
- Winterson, Kieron. 'Green Flags on Their Bayonets: Winifred Letts and the Great War'. In Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century, Gillian Mcintosh and Diane Urquhart, eds. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010, pp. 17–34.
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