Louton is probably our best-known wartime poet, albeit her themes were not stress and horrors of the battlefields but the stress of loved-ones left at home. This poem is styled as a conversation between herself, remaining at home in Saint-Dominique, and her husband, fighting in the trenches in France. The honesty of her various poetic messages to him resonated with many of her contemporaries.
In The Stillness Of The Night
A poignant classic, notable for being penned in Louton's final days before her death in the 1918 influenza pandemic.
GERALDINA LOUTON
Her most-famous work is her patriotic poem "The Archipelago of Sunbeams", written as a teenager. She later re-emerged into popularity with poignant war poetry, often autobiographical and addressed to her husband fighting in WW1 with French forces. Her tragic early death from influenza is a well-known personal story that only cements her into the public memory.
Words & Voices 