Jens Peter Jacobsen

The future HHR first appeared in print (while her book-length translation from J. P. Jacobsen was under consideration) with an essay, Music Study in Leipzig, published in The Lady.

She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...

At the same time she was writing literary essays. In 1897 she published an essay on Jacobsen under the title A Danish Poet. Another, on German Women Writers, remained unpublished. The same fate...