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.
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.
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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...
That year Dyer
also recommended ABC
's poems to Joseph Cottle
of Bristol, and two years later, by May 1799, he proposed to supply Robert Southey
with something by ABC
, and something by Amelia Opie
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.
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...
Textual Production
Caroline Bowles
CB
published the dramatic epic poem Robin Hood, A Fragment, by herself and her late husband, 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.
CF
's travel writing was first publicly mentioned when Robert Southey
quoted it in his Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores (About Everything; or, Leisure Hours) as the work of a lady.
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.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, pp. 8-31.
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Textual Production
Caroline Bowles
CB
's letters to the poet she married were published in The Correspondence of Robert Southey
with Caroline Bowles, To which are added: Correspondence with Shelley
, and Southey's Dreams.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Textual Features
Anna Seward
Though AS
disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian
in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey
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...
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.
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Residence
Caroline Bowles
The month after the death of her husband
, CB
moved back to her family cottage at Lymington in Hampshire.
Mary Matilda Betham
on the one hand invented a romantic parentage for MF and related her imaginary life story in a long poem, and on the other hand produced modernised summaries of her lais. A...
Reception
Lydia Howard Sigourney
She was deservedly criticised for printing in this book the text of a private letter from Caroline Bowles
which revealed how much mental confusion Bowles's husband, Robert Southey
, suffered in his last years.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.