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Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen... [more on Wikipedia]

As a songwriter, Adelaide Anne Procter first charted in 1912 with The Lost Chord.The artist placed 3 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, 3 of which reached the Top‑10.