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  • Chapter 27 - Michael Field and Post-Victorian Decadence

  • from Part V - Afterlives and Future Fields
  • Edited by Sarah Parker, Loughborough University
  • Book:
    Michael Field in Context
    Published online:
    03 October 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025, pp 259-267

  • Summary

    This chapter considers Michael Field’s position as ‘Victorian decadents’ in the early twentieth century. It outlines Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper’s ambivalent response to fin-de-siècle decadence, as seen in their reactions to the likes of Oscar Wilde and The Yellow Book. The chapter then proposes that Michael Field actually became more attached to decadence as the ‘yellow nineties’ waned, focusing on how Bradley and Cooper’s dedication to decadence is expressed most clearly in poems about Whym Chow, their beloved dog whose death in 1906 catalysed their conversion to Catholicism. The chapter finally discusses the decadent tropes found in Whym Chow: Flame of Love (1914) and Michael Field’s Catholic poems.