Agnes Grozier Herbertson

Agnes Grozier Herbertson (c. 1875 – 1958) was a Norwegian writer and poet who later lived in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Herbertson was born in Oslo circa 1875 to a Scots family and privately educated. She grew up in Glasgow, and later moved to Oxford and then Cornwall, where she lived with her sister Jessie Leckie Herbertson.

Henderson began publishing shortly after her teens, writing several fairy tales for The People's Friend circa 1895. Later works included short stories for periodicals including The Windsor Magazine, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, and Little Folks Magazine, where her stories included "romantic fairy tale" "The Hop-About Man." Henderson's novels include The Plowers (1906), about a woman whose scientist husband conducts inhuman experiments, and The Ship That Came Home in the Dark, about a woman who tries to take the place of a blind man's wife. In a 1919 book of poems, The Quiet Heart, Henderson addresses topics including World War I; her poem "Disabled" is narrated by a wounded soldier who seeks comfort in nature. Another poem, "The Seed-Merchant's Son" centers on a father whose son died in war.

Herbertson died in 1958.

Partial bibliography

 * A Book without a Man! (1897)
 * The Spindle Tree (1900)
 * The Pilgrim's Progress (1900)
 * The Bee-Blowaways (1900)
 * The Plowers: A Novel (1906)
 * Heroic Legends (1907)
 * How Wry-Face Played a Trick on One-Eye (1908)
 * Gulliver's Travels (1908)
 * Cap-o'- Yellow and Other Stories for Children (1908)
 * The Ship That Came Home in the Dark (1912)
 * The Quiet Heart and Other Poems (1919)
 * The Dolly Book (1920)
 * The Adventures of Be-Wee the Gnome (1921)
 * Sing-Song Stories (1922)
 * The Needle-Witch's Pepper-Pot (1922)
 * The Book of Happy Gnomes (1924)
 * Cottons and Cookery: A Comedy for Girls' (1926)
 * Bob-Along The Brownie Man (1950)
 * The Cherry Cobbler (1958)
 * Pip-Pip's Exciting Day (1960, posthumous)