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Patience Strong

I lived from 1907-1990. I was from England, and am in the English category.

(Winifred Emma May) born 4th June 1907

In 1935 she asked The Daily Mirror for a regular publication of her poems. The features editor asked her to return the following day with eighteen new poems and a suggested pseudonym. This she did with the pseudonym of Patience Strong, a name she took from a book of the same name by Adeline T. Whitney (born 1870). Her daily poems, in ‘The Quiet Corner’, continued throughout World War II until 1946 when her column was transferred to the Sunday Pictorial (later The Sunday Mirror) and continued for several decades. She also contributed poems to the weekly English magazine 'Womans Own' and latterly to the quarterly magazine, 'This England'. Her poems were also published in various anthologies and she made two records reciting her poems.

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