Isobel Armstrong

AH 's work has been sporadically reprinted. She is one of the poets included in Annie Hone 's 1891 collection The Children's Casket: Favourite Poems for Recitation, along with Jean Ingelow , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Isobel Armstrong , in a rare recent comment on AH (which attributed to her strong working-class connections), has judged her exceptional in producing orthodox-seeming work with unusual subtexts. Another notable exception to...

Despite her immense popularity during her lifetime, LH has not benefited as much as other forgotten poets from the resurgence of attention to women's writing. Her work is not included in the major recent anthologies...

Not much is known about MK 's life in the twentieth century. According to Isobel Armstrong , Joseph Bristow , and Cath Sharrock in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, she was quite eccentric...

Another concern of this essay is the violence with which gender roles have historically been enforced. JK sees, according to Isobel Armstrong , the female terrorist as a model of women's condition of damaged narcissism.

As critics Joseph Bristow and Isobel Armstrong note, the poems are technically assured; their succinctness of diction and evocative imagery anticipate the poetry of the fin-de-siècle. Some tackle universal yet also fashionable themes...

Isobel Armstrong , reviewing Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand for the TLS, noted Le Guin's pioneering recognition of the stories of native American women, and her engagement with the commonplace lives examined here, of middle-class...