Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
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Textual Features | Caroline Bowles | The poem, called a burlesque epic Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 81 Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 89 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Bowles | When Lady Gertrude leaves for the London season, Fanny's parents note a change in their daughter. Dame Fairfield complains that Fanny goes moping and peaking about, and don't set to nothin' with a good heart... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
Textual Features | Emily Brontë | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Brontë | Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB
emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold
paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron
in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. xvi-xvii |
Literary responses | Frances Browne | George Croly
in the Dublin Review also focused on FB
's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the... |
Literary responses | Frances Browne | In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyMarya DeVoto
noted the interest in The Star of Attéghéi (and other poems in the volume) in the idea of exile, and the elegaic tone that pervades the volume... |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Browne | She quotes L. E. L.
on her title page, and dedicates her work (these early efforts of my timid Muse) Browne, Mary Ann. Mont Blanc. Hatchard and Son. v |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Browne | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Browne | The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years. Browne, Mary Ann. Ignatia. Hamilton, Adams. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Byron
and Wordsworth
were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey
's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press. 1: 59 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan
followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans
in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB
... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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... |
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