Michael Field

"Michael Field" by Mary Sturgeon is a biography that tells the story of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, two female poets who wrote together under a male pen name. The book aims to bring attention to their largely unappreciated poems and the interesting story of their lives. The author shares a story starting at a dinner party where it was shockingly revealed that Michael Field was not one male poet, but two women. The reader gets a look into Bradley and Cooper's early lives, their close family connections, and their dedication to poetry, showing how their lives influenced the poems they created.