Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland.
161
Isobel Armstrong
Standard Name: Armstrong, Isobel
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Harriet Hamilton King | Hickey
noted of these poems that we have the delight in beauty, in beauty for its own sake; the revelling in the wonder of flowers, which Mrs. King can write of as very few can... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Mew | Among recent critics, Isobel Armstrong
sees CM
as a difficult figure for literary history because of her isolation: her poetry appeared in a decade when nothing of the same sort was current. Celeste Schenck
puts... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her mother (born Emily Tilsley) was the daughter of a wealthy Montgomeryshire banker. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Most sources agree on her mother's family name as Tilsley. However, Armstrong
and Bristow
cite it as Tyldesley from the ancient... |
| Cultural formation | Ann Hawkshaw | As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH
was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural... |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.