William E. A. Axon
read to a meeting of the Royal Society of Literature
a paper about AJV
, offering previously unknown information about her and her poem Christobell, A Gothic Tale, and debunking...
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Anna Jane Vardill
The question of Christobell's authorship continued to be intermittently debated during the nineteenth century. Not until 1908 did William E. A. Axon
settle the question in favour of Vardill.
Haven, Richard. “Anna Vardill Niven’s ’Christobell’: An Addendum”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 117-18.
117
Literary responses
Anna Jane Vardill
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
The Monthly Review (which had given high praise to Rogers for The Pleasures of Memory and only slightly less high praise to Campbell for The Pleasures of Hope) gave Vardill a review of two...
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Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.