Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Arabella Rowden
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Standard Name: Rowden, Frances Arabella
Married Name: St Quintin
Used Form: St Quentin
FAR
, a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin
had made it controversial for females) which included inset poems. After another poem, she reverted to prose for books of religious tone on pagan mythology and the classics of European literature.
The popularity of this formula had endured for generations, from Mark Akenside
(The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744) and Thomas Warton
(The Pleasures of Melancholy, 1747), through Samuel Rogers
(The Pleasures...
Travel
Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
was in Paris in 1820, where she met her old schoolfellow Arabella Rowden
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Darton, F. J. Harvey, editor. The Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood. Wells Gardner, Darton.
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During the 1830s she and her husband enjoyed European travel, particularly in France and Switzerland. A winter in...