Alberta Vickridge (1890-1963), the Bradford poet and editor, was educated at Bradford Grammar School for Girls and had nine books of poetry published in her lifetime, the first when she was just fourteen years old. In 1924 she was awarded the bardic chair at the Southern Counties Eistedfodd for her poem, 'The Forsaken Princess', the only Yorkshire woman writer ever to be so crowned. She single-handedly mastered the craft of printing and worked from an attic in her home at Beamsley House, Frizinghall, for over thirty years editing and printing a range of limited editions, including the literary journal, The Jongleur, which gained a reputation nationally for the excellence of its poetry and printing quality, and also the journal, The Wayfarer, in which she used the editorial pseudonym 'J.E. Beamsley'.
From the guide to the Correspondence and literary papers of Alberta Vickridge, ca. 1894-1962, (Leeds University Library)
