Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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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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. |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | |
Wealth and Poverty | Caroline Bowles | Southey
left her only £2,000. His children received much larger inheritances. In 1854 her financial situation was eased when she was awarded an annual Civil List
pension of £200. It appears that the pension was... |
Wealth and Poverty | Caroline Bowles | In later years, CB
frequently edited her will and always expected to add some matters of trifling moment which may thereafter occur. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 217 |
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 |
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
had her first meeting, in London, with Robert Southey
, the Poet Laureate. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. xix |
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 |
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 |
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 | 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 |
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