Virginia Blain

Standard Name: Blain, Virginia

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Textual Production Margaret Sandbach
Critic Virginia Blain calls MS 's book probaby the best of her several prose fictions.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
She was in great financial need at the time. Virginia Blain observes that Bowles's plans for these reprints, however, were not pursued with enough consistency or vigour to be realised.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Virginia Blain calls the title piece a haunting and mysterious poem . . . . based on the idea of regret for lost love.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman.
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Vespertilia (literally meaning the female of a particular species of...
Textual Features Caroline Bowles
The letter assumes a semi-mocking tone and takes the Shepherd to task for mistreating his dog. Bowles writes: How could you find in your heart to part with him as you did? To transfer him...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Another poem here, The Quern of the Giants, reworks the Icelandic legend of Fenia and Menia, two giant sisters forced into turning millstones for King Frodi. Their endless work greatly benefits their captor until...
Textual Features Caroline Bowles
Virginia Blain calls CB 's The Murder Glen, a highly popular poem which had first appeared in Blackwood's, a grim tale of incestuous adultery, child abuse, wife-bashing, and murder.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Textual Features Michael Field
The collection is divided into four books. In the third book, A Girl is Katharine's tribute to Edith's beauty, her face flowered for heart's ease.
Field, Michael. Underneath the Bough. G. Bell and Sons.
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She celebrates their unique poetic collaboration by saying: I...
Textual Features Eliza Mary Hamilton
Scholar Virginia Blain argues that the poem works to highlight challenges placed before early Victorian women writers, namely the dilemma posed for the woman of genius who aspires to fame within a culture where the...
Textual Features Eliza Mary Hamilton
The sonnet reads:Leave us not voiceless! Israel's Deborah sang; / And Miriam to her timbrel.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
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According to Virginia Blain , EMH 's verse invokes the biblical lineage of the prophetess as song-writer.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
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Reception L. E. L.
More recently, however, LEL has been subject to critical revaluation, as feminist critics have questioned the historical processes and aesthetic standards that led to her exclusion from the literary canon, and are developing increasingly complex...
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 ,...
Reception Caroline Bowles
In her literary biography of Bowles, Virginia Blain notes that The Birth-Day has been generally forgotten in the perception of Bowles through the lens of her marriage to Robert Southey rather than of her literary...
Reception L. E. L.
LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain has argued, she became (with Hemans , and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor...
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.
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Virginia Blain notes that Bowles entered into strenuous pre-publication negotiations with William Blackwood when she refused to accept all his editorial suggestions.
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.
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Material Conditions of Writing Eliza Mary Hamilton
The collection is dedicated to her brother, William Rowan Hamilton .
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
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William Wordsworth thought highly of her writing. In a letter dated 10 January 1833, he wrote to her, arguing that women should...

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Fletcher, Robert P. “’ I leave the page half-writ’: Narrative Discoherence in Michael Field’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Underneath the Bough</span&gt”;. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 164-82.
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
Blain, Virginia. “’Be these his daughters?’ Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disruption in a Patriarchal Poetics of Women’s Autobiography”. Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry, edited by Barbara Garlick, Rodopi, 2002, pp. 1-22.
Waldron, Mary. “’This Muse-born Wonder’: The Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 113-26.
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, pp. 251-69.
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, 1998, pp. 1-18.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
Blain, Virginia. Conversation about Charlotte Mew Papers with Isobel Grundy.
Blain, Virginia. Emails about Michael Field to Isobel Grundy.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
Mukherjee, Meenakshi. “Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 207-29.
Lootens, Tricia. “Hemans and her American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry and National Identity”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 243-60.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
Grundy, Isobel. “Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and ’Old Satyrical Codes’”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, MacMillan Press, 1999, pp. 67-80.
Armstrong, Isobel. “Msrepresentation: Codes of Affect and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.
Blain, Virginia. “Queer Sensations: Menken, Mazeppa and the Purloined Letter”. ’Antipodes’ Victorian Studies Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Marx, Edward. “Reviving Laurence Hope”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., Macmillan, 1999, pp. 230-42.
Peterson, Linda H. “Rewriting ’A History of the Lyre’: Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the (Re)Construction of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Poet”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 115-34.
Curran, Stuart. “Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 145-66.
Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
53
, No. 3, pp. 210-36.
Doody, Margaret Anne. “Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.
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, 1990.
Sales, Roger. “The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 127-41.
Blain, Virginia. “Thinking Back Through our Aunts: Harriet Martineau and Tradition in Women’s Writing”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
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, pp. 223-39.
Groth, Helen. “Victorian Women Poets and Scientific Narratives”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 325-51.