Josephine Kermode
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Margaret Letitia Josephine Kermode was a Manx poet and playwright better known by the pen name "Cushag".
"Cushag" at the age of around 22
The Cushag, the national flower of the Isle of Man
William Cubbon
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William Cubbon M.A. was a Manx nationalist, antiquarian, author, businessman and librarian who was the first secretary of the Manx Museum, later becoming Director of the Museum.
Josephine Kermode
…1911 came Cushag's second collection of poems, Ellan Vannin. In 1913 she had a large number of her poems collected in A Book of Manx Poetry, edited by William Cubbon, an anthology covering the entire history of poetry from the Isle of Man. She had various individual other poems published in places such as the Ramsey…
William Cubbon, M.A.
A bust of William Cubbon