Theodore Watts-Dunton

In his obituary for her, Theodore Watts (later Watts-Dunton) , wrote that she did not seek publication before this book, though she had always had a love of literature and poetry, and began to write...

In 1880 Theodore Watts described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication.Watts, writing after Elliot's death, judged that The Pythoness...

LCE received little critical attention either during or after her lifetime. The Athenæum obituary by Theodore Watts described her as perhaps the latest noticeable addition to that bright roll of female poets of which Scotland...

Her English retained a faint foreign accent,and in an obituary critic Theodore Watts-Dunton blamed her German background for deficiencies he perceived in her written linguistic precision and idiom.

Theodore Watts-Dunton , in the Athenæum, opened his detailed, considered review by making somewhat heavy weather of the concept of eminence in women, citing Blind's comments on Eliot's essay. He goes on, however, to...

Despite her very high reputation, particularly as a poet, in her own day, MB quickly disappeared from the literary horizon following her death. Disregard of the political aspects of her poetry led to serious misreading...