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Adelaide Anne Procter
1825–1864
Remembered for poems that blended strong feeling with social conscience, this Victorian writer became widely read in her lifetime and later reached even larger audiences through hymns and charitable verse. Her work often speaks in a clear, musical voice about poverty, women’s lives, faith, and duty.
3 Audiobooks
Legends and Lyrics. Part 1
by Adelaide Anne Procter
A House to Let
by Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter
Legends and Lyrics. Part 2
by Adelaide Anne Procter
About the author
Born in London in 1825, Adelaide Anne Procter was the daughter of the poet Bryan Waller Procter, who wrote under the name Barry Cornwall. She grew up in a literary circle and began publishing poetry while still young, including work in Charles Dickens’s journal Household Words.
Procter became one of the best-known poets of her day. Alongside her writing, she was active in charitable and early feminist causes, showing particular concern for poor women and working women. That mix of feeling and reform-minded purpose shaped much of her poetry, which often turns private emotion into a call for sympathy and action.
She died in 1864 at just 38, but her reputation lasted well beyond her lifetime. Several of her poems were turned into hymns, and pieces such as "The Lost Chord" helped keep her name before later generations of readers and listeners.