It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

She met some leading Paris figures in anglophone modernism of the time. Her first collection Songs by John Oland was publiAnna Wickhamd in 1911. Her third son Richard died of scarlet fever aged four.

Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1884–1947) a British poet with strong Australian connections. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer though one not able to command sustained critical attention in her lifetime. Many treated her as an eccentric on the basis of a disorganised lifestyle in later years while Anna Wickham had a number of very good and notable literary friends.