Angela Leighton

Standard Name: Leighton, Angela

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Textual Features L. S. Bevington
Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets also muses on the incompatibility of feminism and religion. LSB likens marriage to slavery (that most common of first-wave feminist motifs) in Bees in Clover. She uses poetic repetition and...
Textual Production L. S. Bevington
Until recently, comment on LSB has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
9: 229
While he tarred her with...
Textual Features Emily Brontë
The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron and Wordsworth . There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton argues (following...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The first monograph feminist studies of EBB were by Helen Cooper , 1988, and Angela Leighton ,1989. Other significant studies have appeared by Deirdre David (in Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy, 1987), Glennis Stephenson (later Byron)
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press.
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Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
MEC 's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake . Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is...
Reception Michael Field
As Katharine had feared, once MF 's true identity became known, their work received less attention, and critical enthusiasm waned.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman.
208
Angela Leighton argues that Field's insistence on publishing largely unperformable verse tragedies
Leighton, Angela. Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart. University Press of Virginia.
203
probably...
Textual Features Dora Greenwell
The volume opens with Christina, which relates the sad history of a fallen woman. Choosing this woman's voice for first-person narration (though she is not the person named in the poem's title) is...
Intertextuality and Influence Felicia Hemans
Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin.
737
Although his...
Reception Felicia Hemans
FH was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans in her early attempt to...
Literary responses Harriet Hamilton King
Hickey noted of these poems that we have the delight in beauty, in beauty for its own sake; the revelling in the wonder of flowers, which Mrs. King can write of as very few can...
Literary responses L. E. L.
Feminist critics have been more apt to see LEL as responding in a range of ways to the wrongs of her sex, if only to the extent that, in Angela Leighton 's analysis, these form...
Literary responses Constance Naden
William R. Hughes provided for the Midland Naturalist a review of this book which CN called kind.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
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. The Woman's World (edited by Oscar Wilde ) gave the book one of its several...
Reception Constance Naden
Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...
Literary responses Bessie Rayner Parkes
Parkes acknowledged that she considered poetry not as an intellectual luxury but a very real national influence.
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan.
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Perhaps taking that as a hint, anthologists Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds note that BRP 's poetry...

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Texts

Leighton, Angela. “’Because Men Made the Laws’: the Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet”. New Feminist Discourses, edited by Isobel Armstrong, Routledge, 1992, pp. 342-60.
Leighton, Angela. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Indiana University Press, 1986.
Leighton, Angela. “The Poetry”. The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës, edited by Heather Glen, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 53-71.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
Leighton, Angela. Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart. University Press of Virginia, 1992.