Marion Thain recounts the development of this fascinating poetic persona, created by two female writers.

Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'something fierce, subtle, strange, singular'; 1. The diaries and dramas: life-writing and the temporal patterns of aestheticism; 2. Long Ago: the male pseudonym, fin-de-siècle sexualities and Sappho's historical leap; 3. Sight and Song: Botticelli and ekphrastic paradox; 4. Underneath The Bough: dual authorship and lyric song; 5. Wild Honey from Various Thyme: apian aestheticism and the lyric book collection; 6. The Catholic poetry: the spiritual and historical 'turn' of the century; Conclusion: modernism and the fin de siècle; Notes; Bibliography of material by Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper; General bibliography; Index.