George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

Writing beyond the ending of Childe Harold is indicative of the special place that Byron holds in relation to CG 's work. She often quotes his poetry in influential positions, and she plays variations on...

Using as a foundation her affair with Byron (not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass thinks the fourteen lyrics included in...

According to its editor Julia Markus , the poem constitutes one of the most detailed accounts of Florence in 1847 and 1849, and it interweaves with that political history of a nation-in-the-making a deeply personal...

She also published articles in the Atlantic Monthly between 1857 and 1879. She wrote of slavery and emancipation, and of domestic topics. Her Sojourner Truth . The Libyan Sybil appeared in April 1963, and The...

The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella) , widow of the poet...

UM 's poetry has sometimes been characterised as uneven. Her best poems, however, explore black, female identity with perception and passionate honesty. Despite the pervasive influence on her work of Romantic poets such as Shelley

On Byron 's death she wrote an elegy in twelve couplets. Most of her poems about women celebrate those who are spotless in morals and reputation—she takes care that non-spotless women are killed off...

Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

EC employed couplets, stanzas, and blank verse to address her African, Oriental, pastoral, medieval, and contemporary subjects; the one non-exotic tale is best, but all have dash and vigour. A battle-ballad sounds Byron

Like most of her correspondents, Berry is somewhat wordy, given to tiptoeing round the nuances of sentiment. Her letters to Walpole, like his to her, are divided between professions of affection and the endless chronicle...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

The poem, called a burlesque epic by the author, details the life and adventures, and tragical death of Merlin the tomcat. (The title Childe, famously used in Byron 's Childe Harold...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

Miss Middleton's new Polish home is half-palace, half-cottage; her new pupil, Anulka Zielinska, is a precocious, delicate ten-year-old. Anulka's father is dead, her mother is a cadaverous invalid, and her sister Jadwiga is nine years...