A short biography of Adelaide Anne Procter, one of the most popular poets of the Victorian age
She may not be a famous name in the world of English literature nowadays, but Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) once enjoyed considerable popularity. Who was Adelaide Anne Procter, and what did she write?
1. Adelaide Anne Procter co-wrote ghost stories with Dickens. It was Charles Dickens who published much of Procter’s work in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and Procter even worked with Dickens, as well as Dickens’s friend Wilkie Collins, on several Christmas ghost stories, ‘A House To Let’ and ‘The Haunted House’. Elizabeth Gaskell, another author Dickens published, was another contributor to ‘The Haunted House’.