Margaret Reynolds

Among JW 's many sexual relationships, she had a notorious affair with her former literary agent Pat Kavanagh , the wife of author Julian Barnes . Another significant relationship was with theatre director Deborah Warner

Margaret Reynolds in The Sappho Companion, 2001, sweeps with a broad net translations, portraits, ballets, operas, poems, plays, novels, songs and treatises. She too ends on the potential of Sappho as lesbian foremother...

After languishing for more than a century, HET 's work has reappeared in the anthology of Victorian women poets edited by Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds .Leighton compares her unsentimenal poems on childbirth and motherhood...

Parkes acknowledged that she considered poetry not as an intellectual luxury but a very real national influence. Perhaps taking that as a hint, anthologists Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds note that BRP 's poetry...

Leighton and Reynolds suggest that this poem, together with Barrett Browning 's Aurora Leigh, is one of the few bold attempts to tackle the woman question in verse and it is clearly influenced by...

Margaret Reynolds and Jonathan Noakes published in 2003Susan Hill; The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature as one in Vintage 's Living Texts series. Intended for teachers, students, and reading groups, this book discusses four...

Hickey noted of these poems that we have the delight in beauty, in beauty for its own sake; the revelling in the wonder of flowers, which Mrs. King can write of as very few can...

As her reputation recovered in the later part of the century, fine editions of particular works began to emerge: Julia Markus 's edition of Casa Guidi Windows, 1977, and Margaret Reynolds 's landmark edition...

Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...

Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets also muses on the incompatibility of feminism and religion. LSB likens marriage to slavery (that most common of first-wave feminist motifs) in Bees in Clover. She uses poetic repetition and...

An Oasis, according to critics Leighton and Reynolds , is one of those nineteenth-century artist-and-model poems which so sceptically and intelligently analyse the process of the male gaze which wipes out the woman's individuality...

The contents are divided thematically as Songs of the Inner Life, Spring Songs, and Romantic Ballads. One of those poems, the lyric Melancholia, was inspired an Albrecht Dürer engraving.

The volume opens with Christina, which relates the sad history of a fallen woman. Choosing this woman's voice for first-person narration (though she is not the person named in the poem's title) is...

Until recently, comment on LSB has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science. While he tarred her with...

Although deteriorating in health, RMW contributed reviews and poetry to the Athenæum.