Florence S. Boos

Standard Name: Boos, Florence S.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Jessie Russell
JR was born in GlasgowScotland.
This date is cited by a number of critics; Florence S. Boos , however, implies an earlier one when she says Russell was thirty when her poems were...
Publishing Ellen Johnston
In the difficult journey to print in volume form, EJ benefited from the repeal of the Stamp Act (which enabled increased circulation of the working-class journals in which she published), from the Scottish patriotism which...

Timeline

By 23 November 1861: A hosiery-maker from Leicester, Ruth Wills,...

Women writers item

By 23 November 1861

A hosiery-maker from Leicester, Ruth Wills , published Lays of Lowly Life.
Boos, Florence S. “The ’Queen’ of the ’Far-Famed Penny Post’: ’The Factory Girl Poet’ and Her Audience”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
10
, No. 3, 2003, pp. 503-26.
Boos 526
Boos, Florence S. “The ’Queen’ of the ’Far-Famed Penny Post’: ’The Factory Girl Poet’ and Her Audience”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
10
, No. 3, 2003, pp. 503-26.
Boos 521

Texts

Boos, Florence S. “Cauld Engle-Cheek: Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Scotland”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, 1995, pp. 53-73.
Boos, Florence S. “The ’Queen’ of the ’Far-Famed Penny Post’: ’The Factory Girl Poet’ and Her Audience”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
10
, No. 3, 2003, pp. 503-26.