A Light Load

Caroline Maitland (1858-1920) was an English poet and writer. She married in 1883 Ernest Radford, and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children, one being Maitland Radford. Her friends included Eleanor Marx, whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by Karl Marx, and Amy Levy. Among her works are: A Light Load (1891), Songs for Somebody (1893), Good Night (1895), Songs and Other Verses (1895), The Young Gardeners' Kalendar (1904), Sea- Thrift: A Fairy Tale (1904), In Summer Time (1905), A Ballad of Victory and Other Poems (1907) and Poems (1910).