Virginia Blain

Standard Name: Blain, Virginia

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Mary Hamilton
Virginia Blain in ODNB suggests that EMH engaged with Anne Disney in a romantic friendship reminiscent of a love affair.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
31, 43
William Wordsworth thought highly of her writing. In a letter dated 10 January 1833, he wrote to her, arguing that women should...
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.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
47
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.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
47
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...
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 ,...
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 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.
258
Vespertilia (literally meaning the female of a particular species of...
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...

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Texts

Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman, 2001.
Hickok, Kathleen. “Why is this Woman Still Missing? Emily Pfeiffer, Victorian Poet”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 373-89.