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Health | Harriet Hamilton King | She writes that her health suffered greatly from dwelling so intensely on such a painful topic; and I had the sensation strongly that I was being dragged down to the grave by Orsini
, to... |
Literary responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 75 |
Literary Setting | Harriet Hamilton King | The first part of the collection concerns Giuseppe Garibaldi
, Felice Orsini
(whose assassination attempt on Napoleon III
it defends), and the cause the author herself had fervently embraced: that of Italian nationalism. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 82 King, Harriet Hamilton. Aspromonte and Other Poems. Macmillan. vii |
Textual Production | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
began work on her first significant poem, The Execution of Felice Orsini, which paid homage to the Italian nationalist movement. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. |
Textual Production | Jessie White Mario | Jessie White (later JWM
) published her translation of the Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini
's graphic The Austrian Dungeons in Italy, which had not yet reached print. Orsini was later executed after making an... |