As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in...
Publishing
Mary Augusta Ward
A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold
and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward
, was privately printed.
Wilkes, Joanne. “Mary Ward as Critic of Matthew Arnold”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 453-67.
456 and n7
Textual Production
A. Mary F. Robinson
In the same year, 1894, AMFR
contributed critical introductions to selections by Felicia Hemans
and Joanna Baillie
in The English Poets, edited by Humphry Ward
(husband of the well-known novelist
).
Robinson, A. Mary F., Matthew Arnold, and Matthew Arnold. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.
4: ix-x
Timeline
1880
Thomas Humphry Ward
published with Macmillan
a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.
Texts
Robinson, A. Mary F., Matthew Arnold, and Matthew Arnold. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.