HBS
defended the role taken by Lady Byron
in her marriage to the poet
, which seeks to modify if not to explode prevailing female stereotypes, in Lady Byron Vindicated.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
368
Adams, John R. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Twayne, 1989.
88
Textual Production
Edna O'Brien
In Byron
in Love, EOB
presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke
, and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh
.
Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing
, he...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Joanna Baillie
The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella)
, widow of the poet...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil.
Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady. Social Studies. Ward and Downey, 1893.
274
Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She also published articles in the Atlantic Monthly between 1857 and 1879. She wrote of slavery and emancipation, and of domestic topics. Her Sojourner Truth
. The Libyan Sybil appeared in April 1963, and The...
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Travel
Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna had previously travelled on the Continent with Sir Gerard Noel
and his daughter.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
xi
The sculptor Behnes Burlowe
had introduced her to Robert Noel
, a cousin of Lady Byron
. Noel in turn...
Travel
Augusta Ada Byron
AAB
travelled on the Continent with her mother, Lady Noel Byron
, and a small entourage of friends.
Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992.
28
Travel
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was received by Dickens
, Lady Byron
, Anna Jameson
, the Lord Mayor of London, and various members of the nobility.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
233, 234
Adams, John R. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Twayne, 1989.
44-5
The working-class Scots poet Janet Hamilton
's tribute to...