English writer Katherine Harris Bradley was BOTD in 1846. Born in Birmingham to a prosperous industrialist family, she studied at the Collège de France in Paris and later attended classes at Newnham College at Cambridge University (though was not allowed to receive a degree). In 1873, her sister Lizzie became an invalid after the birth of her second daughter, and Bradley became the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper, sixteen years her junior. Bradley’s first poetry collection The New Minnesinger was published in 1875 under a male pseudonym. Sometime in the mid-1870s, Bradley and Cooper became lovers, eventually living together after Cooper completed her education. From 1884, they co-authored and published poems and verse dramas using the pseudonym “Michael Field”, achieving critical praise though little commercial success. They befriended many of the literary and artistic stars of their age, including Walter Pater, Charles Ricketts, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee and Robert Browning. To their annoyance, the true identity of Michael Field was made public, probably by Browning, effectively ending their literary reputation. Inseparable for 40 years, Bradley and Cooper supported the suffragette movement, travelled extensively through Europe, and somewhat fashionably became Catholics later in life. Cooper died of cancer in 1913, aged 49. A heartbroken Bradley died less than a year later, in 1914, aged 67. They were buried together at St Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in South West London (the resting place of the bisexual writer and explorer Richard Francis Burton). A heavily expurgated version of Bradley’s journals was published after her death. Their work fell into obscurity until the 1990s, with a number of biographies and critical studies of their work.