GREAT-NIECE OF KEATS.
Great-niece of John Keats, a bed-ridden Hastings woman is contemplating the publishing of poems. She is Miss Slatter, aged 83, and she lives with her sister, Mrs. W. T. Smith, at Lower Park Road. Mrs. Smith said that her sister had been writing at intervals for many years. " None of her work has ever been published, and has never been seen except by ourselves, but she has always had a wish to bring out a book, 0 said Mrs. Smith. She sent a poem called " Wake Up, Old England," to King Edward, and received a letter of thanks. Miss Slatter was a god-daughter of Charles Dickens. " I knew him well," said Mrs. Smith. "He used to visit us frequently when we lived at Liverpool.'-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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