Isobel Armstrong

Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB 's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an...

From this collection onwards Rumens's work consistently reached outside Britain to the experience of other countries. Scholar Isobel Armstrong has called her a European poet.

Notwithstanding, or indeed perhaps because of, her popularity in the Victorian period, AP 's critical reputation foundered for most of the twentieth century. A study in German by Ferdinand Janku (Adelaide Anne Procter: ihr...

Among recent critics, Isobel Armstrong sees CM as a difficult figure for literary history because of her isolation: her poetry appeared in a decade when nothing of the same sort was current. Celeste Schenck puts...

Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L.

Her mother (born Emily Tilsley) was the daughter of a wealthy Montgomeryshire banker.

As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...