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.
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Isobel Armstrong
Standard Name: Armstrong, Isobel
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Constance Naden | Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds
and Angela Leighton
, 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong
,... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | Notwithstanding, or indeed perhaps because of, her popularity in the Victorian period, AP
's critical reputation foundered for most of the twentieth century. A study in German by Ferdinand Janku
(Adelaide Anne Procter: ihr... |
| Literary responses | Carol Rumens | From this collection onwards Rumens's work consistently reached outside Britain to the experience of other countries. Scholar Isobel Armstrong
has called her a European poet. Rumens, Carol. Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe Books. back cover |
| Textual Features | Margaret Veley | As critics Joseph Bristow
and Isobel Armstrong
note, the poems are technically assured; Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 670 |
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