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Madeline Ida Bedford

I was from Great Britain, and am in the English category.

Very little seems to have been written about this woman. Writing at the time of the “Great War” 1914-1918 she is most often remembered as the writer of one particular, much anthologised, poem “Munitions Wages” [1917] although she published an entire collection entitled “The Young Captain” (1917). The only reference so far found simply refers to her as “a middle class woman”!
She lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

My poetry

  • Earning high wages?
    Yus, Five quid a week.
    43 lines, 65,535 comments
  • What do you want
    Coming to this ‘ere ‘ell?
    40 lines

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