Coventry Patmore

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Standard Name: Patmore, Coventry

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
The volume includes Prefatory Poems by Coventry Patmore , Francis Thompson , George Meredith , Vita Sackville-West , and others. Many of them were written long before Meynell's death,
Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape.
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and are revealing about the...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans
Textual Production Alice Meynell
AM published The Second Person Singular, and Other Essays, a collection of twenty pieces about Italy, George Meredith , Leigh Hunt , Thomas Lovell Beddoes , and Coventry Patmore .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape.
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Textual Production Angela Thirkell
AT published, as Leslie Parker, a novel entitled Trooper to the Southern Cross, and under her own name a volume of stories which she called The Demon in the House in a parodic...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
Poet and editor W. E. Henley , printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Henley introduced...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bury
EB set out in her diary to record the most remarkable Providences of God, with respect to her self and others.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint.
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Much of the record consists of such passages as: I rose early, and...
Reception Alice Meynell
AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...
Reception Barbara Pym
Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively wrote, I am always surprised that the...
Reception Lucy Walford
In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...
Publishing Caroline Norton
CN 's prolific reviewing included a signed notice, published in Macmillan's Magazine on 8 September 1863, of Coventry Patmore 's The Angel in the House and Christina Rossetti 's Goblin Market.
Publishing Alice Meynell
Four of the poems had previously appeared in magazines. Of these, Why wilt thou Chide?, which was addressed to Coventry Patmore and responded to his violent jealousy of AM 's friendships with other men...
Author summary Alice Meynell
AM was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during...
Performance of text Virginia Woolf
VW worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service
Occupation Catherine Gore
Literary historian Rebecca Lynne Russell Baird indicates that during this time CGbecame known as somewhat of a recluse who let little be known of her home life.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas.
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Yet this was the period during...

Timeline

By 10 August 1844: Coventry Patmore published Poems, his first...

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By 10 August 1844

Coventry Patmore published Poems, his first collection, which included The Woodman's Daughter.

October 1854: Coventry Patmore anonymously published The...

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October 1854

Coventry Patmore anonymously published The Betrothal, the first part of his poetic celebration of courtship, marriage, and conservative gender roles, The Angel in the House.

1856: The Espousals, the second part of Coventry...

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1856

The Espousals, the second part of Coventry Patmore 's poemThe Angel in the House, was published.

By 17 December 1859: Under her pseudonym Mrs Motherly, Emily Augusta...

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By 17 December 1859

Under her pseudonym Mrs Motherly, Emily Augusta Patmore (Coventry Patmore 's first wife) published her second book of the year, Nursery Poetry, with illustrations.

By 20 October 1860: Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry...

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By 20 October 1860

Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry Patmore 's poemThe Angel in the House, was published.

1862: The Victories of Love, the fourth and final...

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1862

The Victories of Love, the fourth and final part of Coventry Patmore 's poemThe Angel in the House, was serialised in Macmillian's Magazine.

1881: Marianne Caroline Patmore and her husband,...

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1881

Marianne Caroline Patmore and her husband, Coventry Patmore , published their translationSaint Bernard on the Love of God.

Texts

Procter, Bryan Waller. An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends. Editor Patmore, Coventry, Roberts Brothers, 1877.
Patmore, Coventry, and Reginald Gordon Cox. “The Woodlanders”. Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage, Routledge, 1979, pp. 157-9.