George Washington Bethune

Standard Name: Bethune, George Washington

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Eliza Cook
An 1848 preface to a US edition of her poems ranked EC 's popularity almost as high as that of Felicia Hemans or Caroline Norton . It characterises her work in terms of emotion and...
Reception Dorothea Primrose Campbell
DPC 's poems are not easily accessible. Only one was included by George Washington Bethune in his Philadelphia anthology The British Female Poets, 1848 (during her lifetime), and one by Paula R. Backscheider in...

Timeline

1848: American George Washington Bethune published...

Writing climate item

1848

American George Washington Bethune published his anthology The British Female Poets.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Bethune, George Washington. The British Female Poets. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.

Texts

Bethune, George Washington. The British Female Poets. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.