Neilson
detected Werterism in HC
's poems: a tragic sentimentality and preference for suicidal and murderous subjects, which conformed to a current mode even if it was not in fact a direct response to Goethe
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing
Helen Craik
A manuscript of HC
's collected poems has been mentioned, but has not been traced.
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton .
373
Overall, in fact, little survives, though she included The Maid of Enterkin in her first novel, and George Neilson
Textual Features
Helen Craik
HC
incorporated in this volume her long poem The Maid of Enterkin (whose title was used by George Neilson
for his articles about her in 1919 and 1925).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
