In 1880 Theodore Watts
described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2726 (1880): 124
Watts, writing after Elliot's death, judged that The Pythoness...
Literary responses
Lady Charlotte Elliot
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...
Textual Features
Christina Rossetti
The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural...
Textual Features
Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD
recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton
and Swinburne
in Putney, the backwoods of West London,
Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton, 1971.
1
and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences
qtd. in
Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton, 1971.
18
had reduced his health and finances and made...
Textual Production
Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD
published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne
and Theodore Watts-Dunton
, entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1973
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2024, Numerous volumes.
101
Textual Production
Lady Charlotte Elliot
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...