Coventry Patmore

Coventry Patmore praised the volume hyperbolically in the Fortnightly Review: At rare intervals the world is startled by the phenomenon of a woman whose qualities of mind and heart seem to demand a revision...

Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before...

The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally...

The theoretical essay with which FPC headed Josephine Butler 's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than...

Her most commonly printed poem, Philip My King, anticipates, using biblical imagery, the entire life of her godson Philip Bourke Marston . The speaker entreats him, when he marries, to Rule kindly, /...

In this story Margaret Ansted arrives at the sleepy town of Islesworth to become a maid at the Walcombe estate following the death of her father. This action is described as a transformation into the...

The narrative, with its freight of evocative description, moves back and forth between successive generations of the Dane family, beginning with the newly-married Victorian pair, Griselda and John (who become, respectively, a reluctantly full-time house-manager...

The Lure of Eve is prefaced with a quotation from Coventry Patmore 's poem The Toys. It presents a group of idealistic young men at the beginning of mostly creative careers: Deane the painter...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

Coventry Patmore and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell lived in the same village as MBE .

CG was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton to which Disraeli , Lady Morgan , and Letitia Landon also...

Those who publicly testified that the relationship between Hunt and Ford had every outward appearance of a marriage included Brigit Patmore , wife of Coventry Patmore 's grandson).

Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel 's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal , although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina...

AM suspended her close friendship with poet Coventry Patmore because of his increasing jealousy of her friendships with other men.

A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald , Coventry Patmore , Edward Lear , William Ewart Gladstone