Augusta, Lady Gregory Early writings What were some of the early writings of Augusta? Lady Gregory had an affair with the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, A Woman's Sonnets. Are there any other interesting aspects about this article? Her earliest work to appear under her own name was Arabi and His Household (1882), a pamphlet--originally a letter to The Times How were her early writings received by critics and the public? I don't know. What other works did she produce early on? in 1893 she published A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin, an anti-Nationalist pamphlet against William Ewart Gladstone's proposed second Home Rule Act. Did she collaborate with anyone? I don't know.
What were her best-known works?
What were Augusta best-known works?
The Gregorys travelled in Ceylon, India, Spain, Italy and Egypt. While in Egypt, Lady Gregory had an affair with the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, A Woman's Sonnets. Her earliest work to appear under her own name was Arabi and His Household (1882), a pamphlet--originally a letter to The Times--in support of Ahmed Orabi Pasha, leader of what has come to be known as the Urabi Revolt, an 1879 Egyptian nationalist revolt against the oppressive regime of the Khedive and the European domination of Egypt. She later said of this booklet, "whatever political indignation or energy was born with me may have run its course in that Egyptian year and worn itself out". Despite this, in 1893 she published A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin, an anti-Nationalist pamphlet against William Ewart Gladstone's proposed second Home Rule Act. She continued to write prose during the period of her marriage. During the winter of 1883, whilst her husband was in Ceylon, she worked on a series of memoirs of her childhood home, with a view to publishing them under the title An Emigrant's Notebook, but this plan was abandoned. She wrote a series of pamphlets in 1887 called Over the River, in which she appealed for funds for the parish of St. Stephens in Southwark, south London. She also wrote a number of short stories in the years 1890 and 1891, although these also never appeared in print. A number of unpublished poems from this period have also survived. When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park; there she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894. She was to write later, "If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it. Loneliness made me rich--'full', as Bacon says." CANNOTANSWER
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Kazue Morisaki  is a Japanese poet and nonfiction writer. She is best known for her 1976 book .

Early life and education 
Morisaki was born in what is now Daegu, Korea on April 20, 1927. Her father was a teacher. The family also had a Korean nanny for their three children, of which Morisaki was the oldest. Morisaki's mother died of cancer when she was in high school. Her family moved to back to Fukuoka, Japan when World War II broke out. She graduated from what is now Fukuoka Women's University in 1947. Her essay "Two Languages, Two Souls" is about her complex emotions regarding leaving Korea, including her attempts to erase her Korean past and her acknowledgement of her former position as a colonizer.

Career 
In 1950 she began writing for a poetry magazine headed by . She also started a family and had a daughter. In 1956 she began working at the Fukuoka NHK, where she wrote essays and scripts for radio dramas. In 1957 she moved to a mining town in Chikuhō with Gan Tanigawa and  and founded a journal called . She also published a journal for women called  from 1959 to 1960. Even after the mine closed and Tanigawa left for Tokyo, Morisaki continued writing.

Morisaki published one of her best-known works, , in 1976. It was about Japanese women who moved overseas to be sex workers.

Throughout her career she wrote more than fifty books and earned many awards, such as the Yutaka Maruyama Prize for poetry. Her works were typically about women, the working class, and their struggles. She was particularly interested in the "underground" culture of the miners and how it differed from "aboveground" Japanese culture.

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20th-century Japanese writers
1927 births
People from Daegu
Living people Saleha binti Abdul Rashid (born 24 July 1937), better known by her pen name Salmi Manja, is a Malaysian novelist, poet, and journalist. She was among the first Malaysian professional women writers and best known for her 1960 novel Hari Mana Bulan Mana (What Day What Month). Femininity, women's issues, and Islam are recurring themes in her work.

Biography
Salmi went to Darul Maarif Arab-language school and Tong Chai English School in Singapore. In 1956, Salmi attended a writing course offered by the Malay writer Harun Aminurrashid and became a member of the ASAS 50 group along with Usman Awang.

Before her career as a journalist and writer, Salmi worked as a religious teacher in her former school Darul Maarif during which time she contributed works of poetry to a number of local magazines. Salmi later became a journalist for Semenanjung and Berita Harian.

In April 1958, Salmi married the noted novelist and poet A. Samad Said and moved from Singapore to join him in Kuala Lumpur. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she published five other novels and two anthologies of short stories and poems. She continued her career as a journalist, working with Cahaya Lembaga and the Selangor Islamic Women's Association.

Selected works

Novels
 Hari Mana Bulan Mana (What Day What Month, 1960)
 Sayang Ustazah Sayang (A Pity, Ustazah, a Pity)

Collection of short stories
Daun-daun Berguguran (Fallen Leaves)

See also
Adibah Amin
Dina Zaman
Fatimah Busu
Khadijah Hashim
Siti Zainon Ismail

References

1937 births
Living people
Malaysian novelists
20th-century Malaysian poets
Malaysian women novelists
Malaysian women poets
Malaysian people of Malay descent
20th-century novelists
21st-century novelists
21st-century Malaysian poets
20th-century women writers
21st-century women writers Katherine Ashenburg is a Canadian writer best known for her 2018 debut novel Sofie & Cecilia.

Career
Ashenburg began her career as a CBC Radio producer, eventually becoming an editor at The Globe and Mail newspaper.

In 1996 Ashenburg published her first book, Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario. She would follow that with two more works of non-fiction: The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die, which she wrote after her son-in-law died in 1998 and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History.

Ashenberg released her debut novel Sofie & Cecilia a few months shy of her 73rd birthday. The novel was inspired by a trip she took to Sweden to visit her daughter, where she became fascinated by the life of artist Carl Larsson and his wife Karin Bergöö Larsson. Ashenburg originally told Bergöö Larsson's story to her friend author Jane Urquhart, hoping that she would turn it into a novel, but Urquhart instead suggested Ashenberg write the story herself.

Selected works
Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario (1996)
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die (2002)
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (2008)
Sofie & Cecilia (2018)

References

21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian women novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Canadian women writers