Morlier, Margaret M. “A Note on ’Goblin Market’: A Literary Source in Caroline Bowles Southey’s ’Young Grey Head’”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol.
8
, pp. 49-52. 51
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Material Conditions of Writing | Caroline Bowles | She had composed this poem while caring for Southey
. She later maintained that it was inspired by a true story. Morlier, Margaret M. “A Note on ’Goblin Market’: A Literary Source in Caroline Bowles Southey’s ’Young Grey Head’”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol. 8 , pp. 49-52. 51 Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 210-11 |
Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Bowles | She accused William Howitt of treating Southey
unfairly in this book. |
Author summary | Caroline Bowles | CB
was a nineteenth-century poet, essayist, and writer of prose fiction. She published extensively in periodicals, particularly Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and her works were often collected in volume form. Her verse is sometimes sentimental... |
Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | In reference to the whole book, the Athenæum reviewer remarked that while Southey
remained a favourite writer his Muse, as she appears in this volume—like our own sense of appreciation perhaps—is no longer in her... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | After the death of his first wife, Edith Fricker
, in 1838, Robert Southey
proposed to CB
. The original Dictionary of National Biography called her acceptance of his offer the most momentous step of her life. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | CB
was too old to have children with Robert Southey
, and the children of his first marriage were not disposed to welcome her warmly. Virginia Blain
speculates that their marriage was not consummated. Southey's... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Two days later, AEB
briefly met Robert Southey
for the first time in person in London. They had been corresponding for some years after he received a review copy of her novel The Protestant. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 292-3 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Four years later, when Southey
's health was in decline, his recently-married second wife, the poet Caroline Bowles
, struck up a correspondence with AEB
. This relationship by letter lasted for fourteen years, although... |
Literary responses | Anna Eliza Bray | She sent Poet Laureate Robert Southey
copies of both novels. He replied in a letter that, although he preferred Fitz of Fitz-Ford, both books were abundantly interesting as to character, situations, and events. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 227 |
Dedications | Anna Eliza Bray | In a letter dated February 1831, Southey suggested that she should create a good specimen of local history. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 |
Literary responses | Anna Eliza Bray |
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