George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-05-16 4:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog
>>> May, by Rebecca Hey
>>
>>> The clouds "have wept their fill" the whole night long,
>>> And what a change is wrought! But yesterday,
>>> We look'd around, and scarce could deem that May,
>>> The poet's theme,— the month of flowers and song,—
>>> Could do her own sweet lineaments such wrong
>>> [...]
>>
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/05/may-rebecca-hey.html
>>
>> Thanks G.D
>>
>> I am a major fan of Rebecca Hey....
>>
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>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Hey
>>
>> Rebecca Hey (née Roberts), also known as Mrs Hey, (1797–1859) was an
>> English botanical artist and poet.
>>
>> Biography
>> Rebecca Hey was born in Leeds and baptised at St. Peter on 21 April
>> 1797. She was the third daughter of merchant Thomas Roberts and Esther
>> Lucy.[1] She married William Hey III (1796-1875) in 1821.[2] He was an
>> apothecary-surgeon, who became principal surgeon at Leeds General
>> Infirmary in 1830, and with other medical practitioners set up the Leeds
>> School of Medicine in 1831.[3] William Hey was one of the original 300
>> Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843.[4]
>>
>>
>> Plate from Sylvan Musings; or The Spirit of the Woods by Rebecca Hey (1837)
>> Rebecca Hey's first book was called The Moral of Flowers, which was an
>> encyclopaedia of English flowers. Each article was written by her and
>> was preceded by a colour engraving of a painting of the flower by artist
>> William Clark, former draughtsman and engraver of the London
>> Horticultural Society.[5] In the preface Hey credits the authors Sir J.
>> E. Smith and Mr Drummond for the botanical information included in the
>> descriptions.[6] Moral of Flowers focuses on flower poems that convey
>> religious and moral messages, with a modest amount of botanical
>> information including flowers' scientific names. Hey’s purpose is to
>> “draw such a moral from each flower that is introduced as its
>> appearance, habits, or properties might be supposed to suggest".[7] The
>> book was popular and was reprinted in 1835 and 1849.[8]
>>
>> Hey's next book was an encyclopaedia of trees, this time using her own
>> paintings as well as her poems. Her works were originally published
>> anonymously.[9]
>>
>> Her final publication Holy Places, and Other Poems focused more on
>> religion and the proceeds from the book went to Special Missions in India
>>
>> Selected Works
>> The Moral of Flowers (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green &
>> Longman, 1833)[11]
>>
>> Sylvan Musings; or The Spirit of the Woods (London: Longman, Brown,
>> Green & Longmans, 1837)[12]
>>
>> Recollections of the Lakes, and Other Poems (London: Tilt & Bogue,
>> 1841)[13]
>>
>> Holy Places, and Other Poems (London: J. Hatchard, 1859)
>>
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> Thanks, Zod. This is new: Rebecca Hey finally has an article on
> Wikipedia. I can see from the history that it went up in Nov. '21, 2
> years after mine, but it already has information that mine doesn't.
> That's to be expected -- there are 6 different Wikiproject groups
> collaborating on that article, vs one person working on mine -- and
> reading it can only improve mine, since all their info is licensed for
> use.

> It's good to see Hey get that level of recognition. Many more people
> will find out about her there than via PPP, and some of them at least
> will search for her poems and find her calendar of sonnets on PPB.

Glad she's finally finding a larger audience.