George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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...

In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...

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...

In the title poem a recluse offers shelter in his cave to a lady who gives birth and then dies, leaving her child to be educated only by nature. The protagonist of The Dying Maniac...

The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron and Wordsworth . There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton argues (following...

Of the hundred lyrics and sonnets, several cover topics of romance: My soul grows faint, my veins run liquid flame, / And my bewildered spirit seems to swim / In eddying whirls of passion, dizzily...

Shorter pieces include The River, Two Maidens, and The Hidden Wound. Lota, the last and longest in the collection, is a narrative poem in blank verse. It is most heavily indebted...

The business of these poems is to heroicize the British soldiers fighting in Crimea, in such lines as They fell, but died not—heroes cannot die. The verses make frequent use of...

The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their...

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...

Miss Byron, author of the English-woman (who was much later labelled as MGB ), published a second novel, Hours of Affluence, and Days of Indigence.

When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron . She based her work on...

It was published by Minerva in three volumes, with mention of the two previous novels published as a Modern Antique, and an &c. suggesting a larger output. The title-page bears an aphorism, Love is...