Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery
in London, the Louvre
Literary responses
Michael Field
Recent criticism, however, has valued this volume highly. Ana I. Parejo Vadillo
argues that its achievement is not only that the subject, the observer, is given sexual agency, but that the object is given agency...
Reception
Michael Field
After being ignored (or scorned) during parts of their writing life, Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper have been resurrected in recent years by literary scholars interested in the rich field their work offers for...
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Texts
Vadillo, Ana I. Parejo. “New Woman Poets and the Culture of the salon at the fin de siècle”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
10
, No. 1, pp. 22-34.
Vadillo, Ana I. Parejo. “Sight and Song: Transparent Translations and a Manifesto for the Observer”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.