Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Southey
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Standard Name: Southey, Robert
Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly Review. His prose works, for which he was celebrated during his lifetime, were primarily historical, ecclesiastical,and biographical, in addition to travel writing. He also produced translations (from French and Spanish), editions, and anthologies. He enjoyed an excellent reputation in his day, and for his last thirty years of life served as Poet Laureate.
But her relations with Southey
's other children were strained, especially with his youngest daughter, Kate
. Kate and her siblings Bertha
and Cuthbert
(who gives Bowles only slight mention in his edition of Southey
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Bowles
Robert Southey
died in March 1843, the immediate cause being typhus.
Blain
provides varying dates of death for Southey
throughout her biography of CB
, including the 20th and the 23rd of March. Most sources...
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Bowles
CB
had her first meeting, in London, with Robert Southey
, the Poet Laureate.
CB
married poet Robert Southey
at Boldre Church near Lymington in the New Forest.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Robinson
MR
's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR
. Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva
novel...
CB
rarely travelled far from her home in Lymington. After the death of her old nurse in 1824, she lived alone. Alfred H. Miles
speculates that her parents' deaths tended to strengthen her nervous...
Friends, Associates
Anna Seward
In her last years AS
availed herself of the services of a Miss Fern
as a (presumably paid) companion.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
244-6
She had struck up an acquaintance with the young Walter Scott
(who sent some of...
Friends, Associates
Anne Grant
At about this time her friends included Robert Southey
, Joanna Baillie
, and Eliza Fletcher
. With the last-named her warm and close personal friendship triumphed over their opposing politics (Grant being a Tory...
Friends, Associates
Anna Eliza Bray
AEB
and her husband
entertained the poet Robert Southey
and his son at their house.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
69, 70
MMB
acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...
Friends, Associates
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Christian and political radical, STC
associated with William Godwin
and Robert Southey
. William Wordsworth
wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen...
After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles