Caris Brooke

Writing as Caris Brooke, Saretta Nesbit was an English poet born in 1844 and died in 1899. She is associated with late Victorian poetry and is recorded as the half-sister of Edith Nesbit, the novelist and poet later famous for children's classics.

Her best-known surviving work is All Round the Year, a collection of poems written with E. Nesbit. The book follows the changing seasons and leans into themes of nature, renewal, and the passage of time, giving modern readers a glimpse of the quieter, lyrical side of Victorian popular poetry.

Biographical details about her are fairly limited in widely available sources, but records also note that she used the names Caris Brooke and C. Brooke, and that she married John Deakin in 1875 before moving to Manchester. That mix of obscurity and family connection makes her an intriguing figure for readers interested in rediscovering lesser-known women poets of the nineteenth century.