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Agnes Grozier HerbertsonAgnes Grozier Herbertson (c. 1875 – 1958) was a Norwegian writer and poet who later lived in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Herbertson was born in Oslo circa 1875 to a Scots family and privately educated. She grew up in Glasgow, and later moved to Oxford[1] and then Cornwall, where she lived with her sister Jessie Leckie Herbertson.[2] Henderson began publishing shortly after her teens, writing several fairy tales for The People's Friend circa 1895.[1] Later works included short stories for periodicals including The Windsor Magazine, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, and Little Folks Magazine, where her stories included "romantic fairy tale" "The Hop-About Man."[3] Henderson's novels include The Plowers (1906), about a woman whose scientist husband conducts inhuman experiments, and The Ship That Came Home in the Dark, about a woman who tries to take the place of a blind man's wife.[2] In a 1919 book of poems, The Quiet Heart, Henderson addresses topics including World War I; her poem "Disabled" is narrated by a wounded soldier who seeks comfort in nature.[4] Another poem, "The Seed-Merchant's Son" centers on a father whose son died in war.[5] Herbertson died in 1958.[citation needed] Partial bibliography
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