Angela Leighton

Leighton and Reynolds suggest that this poem, together with Barrett Browning 's Aurora Leigh, is one of the few bold attempts to tackle the woman question in verse and it is clearly influenced by...

An Oasis, according to critics Leighton and Reynolds , is one of those nineteenth-century artist-and-model poems which so sceptically and intelligently analyse the process of the male gaze which wipes out the woman's individuality...

The contents are divided thematically as Songs of the Inner Life, Spring Songs, and Romantic Ballads. One of those poems, the lyric Melancholia, was inspired an Albrecht Dürer engraving.

After languishing for more than a century, HET 's work has reappeared in the anthology of Victorian women poets edited by Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds .Leighton compares her unsentimenal poems on childbirth and motherhood...

Although deteriorating in health, RMW contributed reviews and poetry to the Athenæum.

According to Angela Leighton , the social scandal that erupted in the wake of RMW 's adultery and second divorce not only created a rift in private between the writer and many of her friends...

She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...

A Castaway is AW 's single best-known work and has often been compared to Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's Jenny.

Since the 1990s, AW 's critical star has been rising rapidly. She is now regularly included in Victorian poetry anthologies and has had substantial critical articles and book chapters devoted to her by scholars including...