Hickok, Kathleen. “’Burst Are the Prison Bars’: Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic Reputation”. Romanticism and Women Poets, edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, University Press of Kentucky, pp. 192-13.
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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Most of the contents had first appeared in Blackwood's. Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, pp. 1-18. 7 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | CB
married poet Robert Southey
at Boldre Church near Lymington in the New Forest. 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. Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue. 198 |
| Publishing | Caroline Bowles | Between April 1824 and May 1829 the stories in this volume (signed C and A) had been serialized in Blackwood's. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 255 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 14, 17, 24 |
| 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. 198 |
| Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | Robert Southey
thought these stories were too sad. In a letter of 17 August 1829 he called Bowles a cruel writer, for you imagine tales which I, with all my love for the writer, and... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Bowles | An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 103 |
| Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | Robert Southey
's triple-decker The Life of the Rev. Andrew Bell, edited and completed in part by Southey's widow CB
, was posthumously published on the heels of conflict among those concerned. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| 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 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Caroline Bowles | At the time of her marriage to Robert Southey
, CB
intended to produce a second story collection. She also entertained the idea of adding new pieces to an edition of Solitary Hours. By... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Caroline Bowles | She had composed this poem while caring for Southey
. She later maintained that it was inspired by a true story. Morlier, Margaret M. “A Note on ’Goblin Market’: A Literary Source in Caroline Bowles Southey’s ’Young Grey Head’”. The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol. 8 , pp. 49-52. 51 Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 210-11 |
| Author summary | Caroline Bowles | CB
was a nineteenth-century poet, essayist, and writer of prose fiction. She published extensively in periodicals, particularly Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and her works were often collected in volume form. Her verse is sometimes sentimental... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Bowles | She accused William Howitt of treating Southey
unfairly in this book. |
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