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...
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...
Timeline
1848: American George Washington Bethune published...
Writing climate item
1848
American George Washington Bethune
published his anthologyThe British Female Poets.
Texts
Bethune, George Washington. The British Female Poets. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.
