Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
That year Dyer
also recommended ABC
's poems to Joseph Cottle
of Bristol, and two years later, by May 1799, he proposed to supply Robert Southey
with something by ABC
, and something by Amelia Opie
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.
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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Caroline Bowles
She accused William Howitt of treating Southey
unfairly in this book.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anna Brownell Jameson
A second section of the Commonplace Book is entitled Literature and Art (and covers Southey
, Arnold
and Thackeray
); a third section is headed Notes on Art.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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Travel
Mary Russell Mitford
On this trip she also visited Bristol and (very briefly) Barnstaple in Devon. In Bath she was haunted (like many visitors after her) by the idea of Jane Austen
characters, and at Bristol by...
Violence
Anna Letitia Barbauld
These young men joked together about inflicting physical violence on ALB
: Coleridge
vowed to cut her to the Heart; Southey
wrote that Lamb
ought to set fire to her wig (a fictional object...
Wealth and Poverty
Caroline Bowles
Southey
left her only £2,000. His children received much larger inheritances. In 1854 her financial situation was eased when she was awarded an annual Civil List
pension of £200. It appears that the pension was...
Wealth and Poverty
Caroline Bowles
In later years, CB
frequently edited her will and always expected to add some matters of trifling moment which may thereafter occur.
