Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Virginia Blain
Standard Name: Blain, Virginia
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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. |
| 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. 68 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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. 213 |
| 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/. |
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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.