{\b Michael Field (pseudonym for Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper). }.

Date of  Birth: October 27 1846 (Bradley); January 12 1862 (Cooper)

{\b Date of Death}.: September 26 1914 (Bradley); December 13 1913 (Cooper)

{\b Works}.

English poets and playwrights. They worked jointly on more than twenty five 
verse dramas and eight volumes of lyrics. Their works of note include 
Calirrhoe (1884), The Father's Tragedy (1885),  Brutus Ultor (1886), Canute 
the Great (1887), Deidre (1918) and In the Name of Time (1919).

{\b Featured Works}.

'Bury Her at Even', 'Gold is the Son of Zeus: Neither Moth Nor Worm May Gnaw 
It', 'Ebbtide at Sundown', '"Adown the Lesbian Vales"', 'The Tragic Mary Queen 
of Scots', 'The Tragic Mary Queen of Scots', 'Shepherd Apollo'.

{\b General Comment}.s
Michael Field was the pseudonym for Katherine Bradley and Emma Cooper. They 
also wrote under the pseudonyms of Isla and Arran Leigh. Bradley was born in 
Birmingham and Cooper was born at Kenilworth, in Warwickshire.

The two women were inseparable after they met when Bradley went to live with 
Cooper's older, crippled sister in 1865. Cooper's mother was to prove an 
important influence on the young Bradley as she assumed responsibility for the 
girl's upbringing. After 1870 Bradley began a number of  important 
correspondences including a lively exchange of letters between herself and the 
eminent author, essayist, artist and architect John Ruskin. She greatly 
disapproved of the way Ruskin portrayed women in his writings, a condemnation 
which has since found much critical support.

In 1878 the family moved to Bristol where both women attended University 
College and became familiar figures at the debating society. They were also 
vocal in the fields of women's suffrage and animal rights.

By 1882 they had become lovers and vowed that they would stay together and 
write for the rest of their lives. This they did, producing a large number of 
tragic dramas as well as several volumes of poetry.