Such work was often highly orientalist, illustrating scenes from foreign lands and of the lives of exotic women, as in Immolation of a Hindoo Widow, 1836. Critic Harriet Devine Jump
has noted, however, that...
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Caroline Norton
Critic Harriet Devine Jump
feels that CN
's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne
contrast in tone with those she wrote later.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 16 Mar. 2001.
The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...
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Frances Power Cobbe
Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles
, begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...
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Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ
published her second full-length work, a volume of Letters to the Young adapted from actual letters, some if not all addressed to her younger sister Geraldine
.
It used to be thought that all...
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Jump, Harriet Devine. “’My Dearest Geraldine’: Maria Jane Jewsbury’s Letters”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
81
, No. 1, 1999, pp. 63-72.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “Another Freak”. Nineteenth-Century Short Stories By Women: A Routledge Anthology, edited by Harriet Devine Jump, Routledge, 1998, pp. 369-82.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “Introduction”. Nineteenth-Century Short Stories By Women: A Routledge Anthology, edited by Harriet Devine Jump, Routledge, 1998, pp. 1-12.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-08.
Jump, Harriet Devine, editor. Nineteenth-Century Short Stories By Women: A Routledge Anthology. Routledge, 1998.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS.