Author talk:Caris Brooke

Sources

Name: Caris Brooke
Source Citation:

• Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. First Supplement. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1972. (ChhPo S1)
• Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. Third Supplement. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. (ChhPo S3)

Commentary

The nature of the name indicates that it is a pseudonym and reflective of the place of Carisbrooke. Searches of pseudonyms and the name do seem to confirm this suspicion, eg. http://www.nesbitlady.com/2012/08/a-caris-brooke-poem-then-and-now/ says that this is Saretta Green the step-sister of Author:Edith Nesbit. No births find a Saretta Green, though a search of 1851 English census shows a Sarah Green (b. 1844) is the elder half-sister to Edith Nesbit (same mother), and this is a more likely name for the period. No place of birth given in record.

Confirmed with name at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/31919 and presumably due to their mother having the name Sarah, so Saretta = little Sarah???

FreeBMD matches 263 records for "Sarah Green" born March 1843 to Dec 1845.

1861 census shows Edith Nesbitt (aged 2) in same household as Sarah Green, aged 17, and born Sandhurst Kent. [Sandhurst is Cranbrook Registration District and no births registered for Sarah Green in the 3 year period)

Nesbit co-published https://archive.org/stream/eastertidepoems00nesb#page/n7/mode/2up so makes reasonable sense.

No readily distinguishable evidence for an 1871 census record, either single or married. Parking further research. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)