Augusta Webster (30 January1837 - 5 September1894) born as Julia Augusta Davies, was an Englishpoet, dramatist, essayist, and translator. She was born in Poole, Dorset. The daughter of an Admiral, she spent her younger years on board the ship he was stationed, the Griper, travelling to places such as Banff Castle and Penzance. After an informal education, she studied at the Cambridge School of Art. In 1863 she married Thomas Webster, a fellow at Trinity College Cambridge. In 1870 the two moved to London where he became a solicitor. She worked for the London branch of the National Committee for Women's Suffrage, and served on the London School Board. In 1885 she travelled to Italy in an attempt to improve her already, at the age of 48, suffering health.
Literary works
Much of her work was published under the pen-name Cecil Home
^ Published after her death by William Michael Rossetti as Mother & Daughter. An uncompleted sonnet-sequence .. With an introductory note by W.M. Rossetti. To which are added Seven, her only other, Sonnets. London, Macmillan & Co.
^ Webster advocated woman's suffrage and offered her thoughts on topics relevant to married women in this collection of essays. Crawford, p.703
References
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Women's and gender history. London: Routledge, 2006. googlebooks Accessed September 27,2008
Stephen, Leslie, George Smith, and Sidney Lee. "Webster, Mrs. Augusta" The Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900. Vol. XX, London: Oxford University Press, 1921. (pp. 1026-27) googlebooks Retrieved September 26, 2008
