Despite the historical research, and setting aside later attention to getting dialect words exactly right, EG
penned this work, says her biographer Jenny Uglow
, page after page, without correction,
Uglow, Jennifer S. “Manuscript Moments”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 181-5.
181
in a fast-flowing hand...
Textual Features
Lady Charlotte Elliot
The volume includes the titular long poem Stella, about the doomed love between an Italian patriot and the daughter of a nobleman, which critic Francis O'Gorman
describes as echoing Tennyson'sMaud (published twelve years...