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.
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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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Anna Eliza Bray | AEB
published her sixth novel, Warleigh; or, The Fatal Oak, A Legend of Devon, a historical romance in three volumes with a dedication to Robert Southey
. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 289 Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 6: prelims |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | She sent the manuscript to Robert Southey
, hoping the Poet Laureate would provide some instruction or advice on publication. He tried to secure Bowles a publisher but the one he tried first, John Murray |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | CB
had her first meeting, in London, with Robert Southey
, the Poet Laureate. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. xix |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Most of the contents had first appeared in Blackwood's. Hickok, Kathleen. “’Burst Are the Prison Bars’: Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic Reputation”. Romanticism and Women Poets, edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, University Press of Kentucky, pp. 192-13. 200 Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, pp. 1-18. 7 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | 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. 198 |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Between April 1824 and May 1829 the stories in this volume (signed C and A) had been serialized in Blackwood's. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 255 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 14, 17, 24 |
| Residence | Caroline Bowles | CB
moved into her new husband
's home, Greta Hall at Keswick. Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue. 198 |
| Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | Robert Southey
thought these stories were too sad. In a letter of 17 August 1829 he called Bowles a cruel writer, for you imagine tales which I, with all my love for the writer, and... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Bowles | An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 103 |
| Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | Robert Southey
's triple-decker The Life of the Rev. Andrew Bell, edited and completed in part by Southey's widow CB
, was posthumously published on the heels of conflict among those concerned. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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