Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue.
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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.
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| Residence | Caroline Bowles | |
| Residence | Caroline Bowles | The month after the death of her husband
, CB
moved back to her family cottage at Lymington in Hampshire. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. xix, 212 |
| Textual Features | Mary Anne Jevons | She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton
and William Cowper
(as edited by Robert Southey
), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on... |
| Textual Features | Anna Seward | |
| Textual Production | Anna Eliza Bray | AEB
published A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; Its Natural History in a Series of Letters to Robert Southey, in three volumes. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 295 |
| Textual Production | Sara Coleridge | It was published anonymously when SC
was just twenty years old, and was initially attributed to Robert Southey
. Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Editor Coleridge, Edith, Henry S. King. 27 |
| Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | In March 1799 MMB
was apparently working both at some translation (which she suspected would not sell) and a novel. Neither has been identified or is known to have been printed. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 61-2 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ham | It was dedicated to the poet Margaret Holford Hodson
(who was at this time seriously ill), and was apparently published by August. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 203 Joanna Baillie's editor Judith Bailey Slagle
dates Baillie's letter about this... |
| Textual Production | Mary Hays | Thomas Underwood
(of Underwood and Black
's print shop in Fleet Street) agreed to publish a translation by MH
of Ollivier by Jacques Cazotte
(a project suggested to her by Robert Southey
); but this never happened. Brooks, Marilyn. Letter about Mary Hays to Isobel Grundy. Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvii |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library
includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs
or her husband; a few are from her... |
| Textual Production | Mary Maria Colling | The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey
Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | CB
solicited Poet Laureate Robert Southey
's opinion on some poems; he advised her to pursue her proper duties, because Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 262 |
| Textual Production | Helen Craik | This appeared in four volumes from the Minerva Press
. Its title seems to be the root source of scholarly confusion of HC
with Catherine Cuthbertson
. HC
was clearly familiar with Helen Maria Williams |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | Two previously unknown manuscripts by CB
, a poem of 77 lines and a prose story or fragment of about the same length, recently came to light tipped into a volume of The Remains of... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey
written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry... |
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