Nora May French [1881-1907] was an American artist and poet, publishing only a few works during her brief lifetime. Her family, which was originally wealthy on her Mother's side [the 'Wells' of Wells Fargo], suffered a series of mishaps, including a drought which, along with the financial depression of the 1890's devastated their California ranch. Miss French was also unlucky in love like her title character in The Spanish Girl, a cycle of twenty two poems about a failed love affair. In 1907 she moved to live with poet George Sterling and his wife in Carmel, where she died by her own hand in November. Her friends published this collection of her poems in 1910. 
When first published Adela Florence Nicholson [aka Laurence Hope] claimed that these poems were translations from traditional Indian songs. Subsequently when it was discovered that the poems were actually original work it caused quite a scandal in Victorian Britian due to there explicit sexual content.
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Walter John De La Mare [25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956] was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners". He also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "Out of the Deep". His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction[2] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Motley, And Other Poems by Walter De La Mare was published in 1918.
