Agnes Rose-Soley

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Agnes Rose-Soley
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Rose-Soley in 1923
BornAgnes Rebecca Rose
1847 (1847)
Scotland
Died19 March 1938(1938-03-19) (aged 90–91)
Milsons Point, New South Wales, Australia
Pen nameRose de Boheme
OccupationJournalist and poet

Agnes Rebecca Rose-Soley (1847 – 19 March 1938) was a Scottish-born Australian journalist and poet. She wrote under the pseudonyms Rose de Boheme and Pistachio [1] and sometimes with her husband as A. J. Rose-Soley. [2]

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Life

Rose-Soley was born Agnes Rebecca Rose in Scotland in 1847 and grew up in France. [3] [4] She attended Newnham College, Cambridge, but unable to complete her studies due to ill health. [5]

Rose-Soley was theatre critic for the Illustrated Sydney News under the pseudonym Pistachio in 1889 and 1890. [6] [7]

She was married in 1891 in Balmain to John Fisher Soley, a journalist and naval artillery volunteer who had earlier enlisted and served in the Sudan in 1885. [8] It was his second marriage: he had divorced his first wife, Alice Helena Soley, for adultery in 1890, naming actor Stilling Duff as co-respondent. [9]

The couple lived at Monad, a waterfront cottage in Clifton Street, East Balmain, where they entertained "all Bohemian Sydney" at "chic dinners". [10] [11]

In 1893 she composed the lyrics and music for a "Marching Song" for the people who migrated to Paraguay that year to establish a settlement known as New Australia. [12]

She and her husband went to Samoa, where they lived on Manono Island for two years. [13] They then moved to San Francisco, where they wrote for newspapers for five years before spending a year in San Diego. After some time in London, they returned to Sydney in 1910. [5]

Rose-Soley founded in 1914 the Sydney Lyceum Club, of which poet Mary Gilmore was a founder-member. [14] [15] During World War I she wrote patriotic poems, some of which were printed as Stray Chords in 1923. [16]

Over the years her poems appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald , The Sydney Mail , The Daily Telegraph and The Bulletin in Australia, and in London's Speaker and Lyceum Journal, San Francisco's Call and Overland Monthly , and Honolulu's Independent [17]

Death

Rose-Soley died on 19 March 1938 at Milsons Point, New South Wales, [18] and was buried at the Northern Suburbs Cemetery. [4] Her husband died intestate in Young, New South Wales, in March 1944. [19]

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