Indian Love features a poetic dedication to Hope's recently deceased husband, Malcolm Hassels Nicolson
. In it she says that she never made public any verse inspired by him, Lest strangers' lips should carelessly rehearse...
Reception
Laurence Hope
LH
's life and work have produced an increasing body of recent criticism, much of it from Edward Marx
, who maintains the Laurence Hope website. An early article by Marx critically surveys contemporary reviews...
Textual Features
Laurence Hope
Critic Edward Marx
has called Kashmiri Song (also known by its first line, Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar) LH
's most famous poem. He argues that it exemplifies the decadent sensibility
Marx, Edward. “Decadent Exoticism and the Woman Poet”. Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Talia Schaffer et al., University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 139-57.
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Textual Production
Laurence Hope
LH
began writing poetry during her adolescence: sources differ as to how much of her juvenile writing she destroyed, although enough remained for the posthumous publication of Laurence Hope's Poems in 1907. Noting certain biographical...
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Texts
Marx, Edward. “Decadent Exoticism and the Woman Poet”. Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Talia Schaffer et al., University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 139-57.
Marx, Edward. “Reviving Laurence Hope”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., Macmillan, 1999, pp. 230-42.
Marx, Edward. The Idea of a Colony. University of Toronto Press, 2004.