Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Catherine Gilpin
Standard Name: Gilpin, Catherine
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Blamire | Catherine Gilpin
belonged to a highly cultivated gentry family. She was the sister of William Gilpin
, the well-known writer on the picturesque, whom Susanna's brother Richmond published; she lived at the moated Scaleby Castle... |
Friends, Associates | Susanna Blamire | SB
had a lively circle of friends, as her letters show. Early involved in her writing life was Elizabeth Beckwith Fisher
, whose name lent itself to such conceits as my Dear Fish gliding away... |
Residence | Susanna Blamire | |
Textual Features | Susanna Blamire | Miss Gilpin's Song, written by SB
for Catherine Gilpin
to sing at her spinning-wheel, combines a dark vision of individual life as a spun thread (A breath can destroy what's so slenderly made... |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | Another edition of SB
's work was produced by Sidney Gilpin (pseudonym of George Coward) as Songs and Poems Together with Songs by Her Friend Miss Gilpin Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003. 122n10 |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | It must be remembered that, in a manner fitting the ballad tradition of unascribed authorship, SB
and Catherine Gilpin
often composed poetry together, and that Gilpin
, as well as Blamire, sometimes composed alone. The... |
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Texts
Blamire, Susanna, and Catherine Gilpin. Songs and Poems. Editor Coward, George, George Routledge, 1866.