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Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne
Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne (1869-1931) was a poet,

Life
Elizabeth Gibson (later Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne) was born in 1869 in Hexham, Northumberland, where her father, John Pattison Gibson, was a chemist.

She attended Gateshead High School, and took on the schooling of her younger brother, Wilfrid Gibson, who also became a poet. She encouraged and influenced his work. . She began publishing poems in a wide range of magazines and newspapers from the late 1890s onwards, including later modernist literary periodicals such as Poetry and The Little Review. In the early years of the Twentieth Century, her books were brought out by influential small publishers such as Elkin Mathews and the Samurai Press. She published some 40 books of poetry and aphorisms. (add ref)  She supported the women's suffrage movement, and was on the committee of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. In 1911 she married Thomas Kelly Cheyne.

After the outbreak of the First World War, she was one of the early signatories of an Open Christmas Letter to the Women of Germany and Austria, organised by suffragists in Britain, calling on women of all nations to work together for international peace.

Poetry

 * The Evangel of Joy (1899)
 * The Burden of Love (1902)
 * A Flock of Dreams (1904)
 * From a Cloister (1904)
 * Shadows (1905)
 * Love's Fugitives (1905)
 * From the Shadow (1907)
 * By Many Streams (1907)
 * A Pilgrim's Staff (1908)
 * In the Starlight (1908)
 * The Day's Journey (1908)
 * From the Wilderness (1910)
 * In the Beloved City He Gave Me Rest (1913)
 * The Way of The Lord (1913) CHECK DATE
 * The Return Home (1914)
 * Vigils (1914)
 * Oxford (1914)
 * A Rosary (1914)
 * Resurrection (1915)
 * The Lover of Life (1915)
 * London (1915)

Prose

 * A Book of Reverie (1908)
 * The Voice of One Crying (1910)
 * Unto Us a Son is Given (nd. circa 1912/13)
 * Litanies (1914)
 * I am the Resurrection and the Life (1914)
 * The Son of Man is Come (1914)
 * The Man with the Mirror (1914)
 * The Wilderness Shall Blossom as the Rose (1918)