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2 unusual facts about Emily Henrietta Hickey


Emily Henrietta Hickey

She sold her first poem, "Told in the Twilight" to the Cornhill Magazine in 1866 and afterwards contributed to Longman's Magazine, Good Words, The Athenaeum, the Irish Monthly and many others.

Frederick James Furnivall

He founded a series of literary and philological societies: the Early English Text Society (1864), the Chaucer Society (1868), the Ballad Society (1868), the New Shakspere Society (1873), the Browning Society (1881, with Miss Emily Hickey), the Wyclif Society (1882), and the Shelley Society (1885).


Browning Society

The most notable Browning Society was that established in London, in 1881, by Frederick James Furnivall and Emily Hickey.


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