Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan
was sexual and...
Literary responses
Caroline Bowles
In reference to the whole book, the Athenæum reviewer remarked that while Southey
remained a favourite writer his Muse, as she appears in this volume—like our own sense of appreciation perhaps—is no longer in her...
Literary responses
Eliza Cook
An 1848 preface to a US edition of her poems ranked EC
's popularity almost as high as that of Felicia Hemans
or Caroline Norton
. It characterises her work in terms of emotion and...
Literary responses
Mary Leapor
ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who...
Reception
Elizabeth Tollet
Nineteenth-century anthologists Alexander Dyce
and Frederic Rowton
chose their selection of Tollet's poems from that of Southey.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
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Mid-century critic Jane Williams
thought Tollet lacked the vitalizing spark of genius, even though her correct metre...
Timeline
1848: American George Washington Bethune published...
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Bethune, George Washington. The British Female Poets. Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.
1848: Frederic Rowton published his anthology The...
Women writers item
1848
Frederic Rowton
published his anthology The Female Poets of Great Britain, Chronologically Arranged, with Copious Selections and Critical Remarks.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Texts
Rowton, Frederic, and Marilyn L. Williamson. The Female Poets of Great Britain. Wayne State University Press, 1981.