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
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.
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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
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
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 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 Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Production Ann Batten Cristall
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.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Textual Production Celia Fiennes
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 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.
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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.
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This work was originally undertaken to assist her brother with his college expenses. However, he...
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.
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In 1810 Southey

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