Ships That Pass In The Night Beatrice Harraden — Beatrice Harraden

1894 Arguably one of the best known Suffragette writers Beatrice Harradenwas a popularnovelistwhowasheavilyinvolved in the Suffragette taxresistancecampaign Her best selling sentimental romance ShipsthatPass in the Night tells of a doomed love affairbetweentwo patients in a tuberculosissanitarium This story caught the public s imagination and the titlebecame a byword for a fleeting or doomed love affair The titlewasinspired by lines in Longfellow s Tales of a Wayside Inn ThirdEvening Theologian s Second Tale Elizabeth Fourth Part