Background
The daughter of Vice-admiral George Davies and Julia Hume she spent her younger years on board the ship he was stationed, the Griper.
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Augusta Webster born in Poole, Dorset as Julia Augusta Davies, was an English poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator.
Education
She studied Greek at home, taking a particular interest in Greek drama, and went on to study at the Cambridge School of Artist
Career
She published her first volume of poetry in under the pen name Cecil Homes. They had a daughter, Augusta Georgiana, who married Reverend George Theobald Bourke, a younger son of the Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo. Much of Webster"s writing explored the condition of women, and she was a strong advocate of women"s right to vote, working for the London branch of the National Committee for Women"s Suffrage.
Webster was the first female writer to hold elective office, having been elected to the London School Board in 1879 and 1885.
In 1885 she travelled to Italy in an attempt to improve her failing health. She died on September 5, 1894, at 57.
During her lifetime her writing was acclaimed and she was considered by some the successor to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After her death, however, her reputation quickly declined.
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English