Adelaide Anne Procter. From a photograph in the possession of
                                Madame Belloc. From A. J. Green Armytage, 
                                    Maids of Honour.

Adelaide Procter

Milestones

1825
Birth
father was poet Bryan Waller Procter
Childhood
Frequent contact with Dickens, Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Thackeray
1851
Religion
Conversion to Catholicism
1858
Vocation
Legends and Lyricspublished
1859
Vocation
Helped found Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women
1864
Death
Tuberculosis

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Rachel Browning and Erika Todd

In 1853, the twenty-eight-year-old Adelaide Anne Procter wrote a letter describing a peasant’s engagement party she had attended in Italy:

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