Robert Southey

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Standard Name: Southey, Robert
Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly Review. His prose works, for which he was celebrated during his lifetime, were primarily historical, ecclesiastical,and biographical, in addition to travel writing. He also produced translations (from French and Spanish), editions, and anthologies. He enjoyed an excellent reputation in his day, and for his last thirty years of life served as Poet Laureate.

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Textual Production Caroline Bowles
She intended to move, with the publication of Chapters on Churchyards, from poetry to prose fiction. Her letter to Southey written on 21 October 1833 shows her growing frustration with the very pretty poetry...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB published the dramatic epic poem Robin Hood, A Fragment, by herself and her late husband, Robert Southey .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
121
Textual Production Celia Fiennes
CF 's travel writing was first publicly mentioned when Robert Southey quoted it in his Omniana; or, Horæ Otiosiores (About Everything; or, Leisure Hours) as the work of a lady.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, pp. 8-31.
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Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB 's letters to the poet she married were published in The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles, To which are added: Correspondence with Shelley , and Southey's Dreams.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production Anna Eliza Bray
AEB published A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; Its Natural History in a Series of Letters to Robert Southey, in three volumes.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
295
Textual Production Sara Coleridge
It was published anonymously when SC was just twenty years old, and was initially attributed to Robert Southey .
Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Editor Coleridge, Edith, Henry S. King.
27
This work was originally undertaken to assist her brother with his college expenses. However, he...
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
In March 1799 MMB was apparently working both at some translation (which she suspected would not sell) and a novel. Neither has been identified or is known to have been printed.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
61-2
In 1810 Southey
Textual Production Elizabeth Ham
It was dedicated to the poet Margaret Holford Hodson (who was at this time seriously ill), and was apparently published by August.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
1: 203
Joanna Baillie's editor Judith Bailey Slagle dates Baillie's letter about this...
Textual Production Mary Hays
Thomas Underwood (of Underwood and Black 's print shop in Fleet Street) agreed to publish a translation by MH of Ollivier by Jacques Cazotte (a project suggested to her by Robert Southey ); but this never happened.
Brooks, Marilyn. Letter about Mary Hays to Isobel Grundy.
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
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Textual Features Mary Anne Jevons
She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton and William Cowper (as edited by Robert Southey ), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on...
Textual Features Anna Seward
Though AS disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey
Residence Caroline Bowles
CB moved into her new husband 's home, Greta Hall at Keswick.
Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue.
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Residence Caroline Bowles
The month after the death of her husband , CB moved back to her family cottage at Lymington in Hampshire.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate.
xix, 212
Reception Caroline Norton
Between the death of Southey , the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth as his successor, CN wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel , to request the position for herself.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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Reception Marie de France
Mary Matilda Betham on the one hand invented a romantic parentage for MF and related her imaginary life story in a long poem, and on the other hand produced modernised summaries of her lais. A...

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