The title-page mentions (besides her name) her authorship of the novel Rose-Mount Castle, and quotes the passage from Shakespeare
's Hamlet about Ophelia's death. Paula R. Feldman
and Daniel Robinson
included six sonnets from...
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Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
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Literary responses
Maria Abdy
This popular poem is one of MA
's humorous pieces, which according to critic Paula R. Feldman
were her most imaginative and successful
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compositions. Although some of her devotional verse has been viewed as...
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons
in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie
Publishing
Mary Shelley
MS
was a lifelong diarist. The diaries which she wrote during 1814-15, jointly with her future husband, were later destroyed.
Coleman, Deirdre. “Claire Clairmont and Mary Shelley: identification and rivalry within the ’tribe of the Otaheite philosophers’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 309-28.
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He recorded in fairly abbreviated style the premature birth of her first baby; equally...
Publishing
Felicia Hemans
FH
's literary earnings went into the triple digits for the first time this year: scholar Paula R. Feldman
estimates them as £383.
Feldman, Paula R. “The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol.
46
, pp. 148-76.
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Publishing
Felicia Hemans
FH
also published in many of the gift books or literary annuals that became popular from the later 1820s: the Amulet, the Book of Beauty, Christmas Box, the English Annual, the...
Publishing
Felicia Hemans
Many critics locate a shift in FH
's poetry in the period following her mother's death and the break-up of the domestic conditions that had fostered her writing both practically and emotionally. While many poems...
Publishing
Felicia Hemans
In 1914 Oxford University Press
published FH
's collected works. After this her works went out of print until the 1970s. Several Garland
reprints with introductions by Donald H. Reiman
have appeared, as have editions...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan
was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans
in her early attempt to...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
Critic Paula R. Feldman
claims that it was Shelley's atheism, whether detected in the letters or through association with his name once discovered, that led FH
's mother to discourage her daughter's correspondence with the poet.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii.
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Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as...
Textual Features
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The novel is unashamedly partisan. Paula R. Feldman
calls it a roman à clef. The rhetoric of repeal is introduced through the figure of Jim Cassidy, Grace's husband, who has already excused breaking his oath...
Textual Features
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Critic Paula R. Feldman
writes that she filled in the gaps in each literary annual with her own poetry or prose.
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In the Book of Beauty for 1839, for instance, Blessington contributed two poems...
Critic Paula R. Feldman
spells the title Meredyth, but the British Library Catalogue, Bodleian Catalogue, and OCLC agree against her.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
820 (1843): 650
Timeline
1828: The first issue of the successful annual...
Writing climate item
1828
The first issue of the successful annual gift bookThe Keepsake appeared; lavish production and distinguished contributors raised the price of this and other such publications to a guinea.
Texts
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, p. xxxvii - xlii.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. xi - xxxiii.
Hemans, Felicia. Records of Woman. Editor Feldman, Paula R., University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Feldman, Paula R. “The Poet and the Profits: Felicia Hemans and the Literary Marketplace”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol.
