During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
MB
published in most of the leading journals of her day including the Athenæum, to which she contributed along with her friend Helen Zimmern
.
Critic Marysa Demoor
considers MB
's and others' access...
Publishing
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF
ceased contributing to the Athenæum in the mid-1880s. At that time, she was in a position of increasing conflict with Liberal Unionists, and Sir Charles Dilke
had been named as a co-respondent in a...
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Texts
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 134-55.
Brake, Laurel, and Marysa Demoor, editors. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism In Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press, 2009.
Demoor, Marysa. “Power in Petticoats: Augusta Webster’s Poetry, Political Pamphlets, and Poetry Reviews”. Voices of Power, edited by Marc Maufort and Jean-Pierre van Noppen, Université de Liège, 1997, pp. 133-40.
Demoor, Marysa. Their Fair Share. Ashgate, 2000.
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.