This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared...
Publishing
Anna Jane Vardill
The European Magazine printed AJV
's Christobell, A Gothic Tale, a sequel to Coleridge
's Christabel. Vardill's poem was for years an unsolved conundrum for scholars, since it appeared in print before Coleridge's.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, pp. 57-88.
57
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as...
Reception
Christabel Coleridge
Though she had a prolific writing career, CC
's novels, stories, and tales have largely been forgotten. There is no biography of her, and what little criticism there is takes the form of reviews of...
Reception
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
EJP
said later that she was past the imitative age by the time she wrote this volume, and that it was my first true utterance, the first that came from any inner depth—though it...
Reception
L. E. L.
LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain
has argued, she became (with Hemans
, and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor...
Residence
Dorothy Wordsworth
William
and DW
moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden House, four miles from Nether Stowey in Somerset, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, in order to be close to Coleridge
and...
Textual Features
Joanna Baillie
The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB
said later, were William Hayley
and...
Textual Features
Edith Sitwell
The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...
Textual Features
Ann Yearsley
Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY
seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe
's Werther, which...
Textual Features
Constance Naden
After an epigraph from Coleridge
's Dejection: An Ode (1802), this volume reprints the contents of CW's two former poetry volumes, adding a total of four unpublished poems.
Textual Features
Mary Robinson
Sailors carried a drowned man ashore and tried vainly to revive him. The body was roughly covered with stones at the foot of the cliffs. But not all the lower classes have sentiment: the victim...
Textual Features
Sara Coleridge
SC
's editorial apparatus includes a full response to accusations that much of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's work was plagiarised.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
111-12
Textual Features
Mary Robinson
It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young
, Thomas Gray
, and Edward Young
, as well as...
Textual Features
Mary Robinson
As well as MR
's account of her life, designed to mark her out as a romantic heroine and victim (and not immune from exaggeration and unreliability), this publication includes much of her other literary...