Abstract
Augusta Webster was an accomplished translator and prolific poet who was well regarded by Victorian readers. Webster wrote in many genres: she published translations of Prometheus Bound and Medea , seven books of poetry, two novels, three plays, and numerous essays and reviews. In addition to her literary career, Webster was politically active in feminist causes. Many of her poems focus on women's lives and experience. Today she is best known as the author of “A Castaway,” a dramatic monologue about a prostitute, and for a posthumous sequence of sonnets celebrating maternal love.
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