Rosamund Marriott Watson (née Ball; 6 October 1860 – 29 December 1911) was an English poet, nature writer and critic, who early in her career wrote under the pseudonyms Graham R. Tomson and Rushworth (or R.) Armytage.

[2] Her older brother Wilfrid Ball became a painter of landscapes and marine subjects who helped introduce her to London's literary circles, including John Lane, the influential publisher of The Yellow Book.

Watson's major success came from her poetry, which stood in the lineages of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti without, at its best, being derivative.

[3] Technically accomplished, Watson deployed a wide range of poetic forms and methods, including sonnets, ballads, rondeaux, villanelles, poems in dialect and translations.

[5] Although the poems can be mannered, her clarity of insight and feminist rereadings of traditional stories have kept her work fresh,[5] while her penchant for formal experimentation presaged modernism.

[2] Once Watson established herself in London's literary scene, later editions of A Summer Night carried her real name, as did her subsequent books, including the 1900 novel An Island Rose.

[3] Starting in 1892, Watson edited the magazine Sylvia's Journal, which was a progressive, feminist-leaning women's monthly that covered a range of topics from work and art to the domestic sphere.