LSC
published Songs of a Stranger, a volume which she dedicated to the Rev. William Lisle Bowles
, who was famous for his sonnets.
Costello, Louisa Stuart. Songs of a Stranger. Published for the author by Taylor and Hessey, 1825.
prelims
Friends, Associates
Louisa Stuart Costello
LSC
made many friends in England, notably including the baronet and politician Sir Francis Burdett
, his wife Lady Burdett
(born Sophia Coutts, member of a famous banking family), and their youngest daughter, who later...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Smith
The many editions of CS
's sonnets attest to their popularity. In one she mentions having to get back from friends the original manuscripts of poems which she had not bothered to keep. Her sonnets...
Literary responses
Charlotte Smith
Coleridge
, in the preface to the second edition of his Poems, named CS
and William Lisle Bowles
as having served the cause of poetry by reviving the sonnet.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Occupation
Mary Stockdale
She ran this business until 1833. Among the works she published were her own later writings, a number of religious titles, and other books such as William Lisle Bowles
's The Little Villager's Verse Book...
Timeline
By June 1789: William Lisle Bowles published Fourteen Sonnets,...
Writing climate item
By June 1789
William Lisle Bowles
published Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, Written during a Tour.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
67 (1789): 504
By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...