May Kendall

May Kendall (Born Emma Goldworth Kendall) (1861 – ?1943) was an English poet, novelist, and satirist. She is best known as the co-author of the novel That Very Mab and the poetry collections Dreams to Sell and Songs from Dreamland.

Possibly her most anthologized poem, Lay of the Trilobite, is a satire of the popular English response to Darwin's evolutionary theory.

In 1895 Kendall partially gave up professional writing in order to more fully devote her life to social reform. She worked predominantly with the Rowntree Family in York.^[1][2]

Works

• (with Andrew Lang) That Very Mab (1885)^[3]
• Dreams to Sell (1887)
• Songs from Dreamland (1894)
• Turkish Bonds (1895)
• (with Benjamin Rowntree) How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem (1913)

Notes and references

1. ^ Maltz, Diana. "Sympathy, Humor, and the Abject Poor in the Word of May Kendall." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 50. 3 (2007), 313-332.
2. ^ "Project MUSE - English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 - Sympathy, Humor, and the Abject Poor in the Work of May Kendall". muse.jhu.edu. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/english_literature_in_transition/v050/50.3maltz.html. Retrieved 2008-10-08. 
3. ^ "'That Very Mab' by May Kendall and Andrew Lang - Project Gutenberg". www.gutenberg.org. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21337. Retrieved 2008-10-08. 

External links

• Works by May Kendall at Project Gutenberg

Persondata
Name	Kendall, May
Alternative names
Short description	English writer
Date of birth	1861
Place of birth	United Kingdom
Date of death	circa 1940
Place of death	United Kingdom