CONSTANCE

See also:

• CAROLINE
• CAROLINE (1683-1737)

CAROLINE WOODHILL

See also:

• CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN (1858-1889)

NADEN (1858-1889)  , English author, was born at Edgbaston, on the 24th of January 1858, her father being an architect . Her mother died just after the child's birth, and Constance was brought up in the home of her grandfather . In 1881 she began to study physical science at Mason College, Birmingham . In 1881 she published Songs and Sonnets of Springtime; in 1887, A Modern Apostle, and other Poems . Her poems made such an impression on W . E . Gladstone that he included her, in an article in the Speaker, among the fore-most English poetesses of the day . After her grandfather's death Miss Naden found herself rich, and she travelled in the East and then (1888) settled in London . She died on the 23rd of December 1889 . After 1876 she had paid increasing attention to philosophy, with her friend Dr Robert Lewins, and the two had formulated a system of their own, which they called " Hylo-Idealism." Her main ideas on the subject are contained in a posthumous volume of her essays (Induction and Deduction, 1890), edited by Dr Lewins .