Webster, Mrs. Augusta (Davies)
- Webster, Mrs. Augusta (Davies)
(1837-1894)
Poet and translator, dau. of Admiral Davies, m. Mr. Thomas Webster, a solicitor. She wrote a novel, Lesley's Guardians, and several books of poetry of distinguished excellence, including Blanche Lisle, Dramatic Studies (1866), Portraits (1870), A Book of Rhyme (1881), and some dramas, including The Auspicious Day (1874), Disguises, and The Sentence (1887). She also made translations of Prometheus Bound and Medea.
Short biographical dictionary of English literature .
John W. Cousin.
2011.
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