Dorothea Primrose Campbell

04 May 1793 - 06 January 1863

Standard Name: Campbell, Dorothea Primrose

Birth Name: Dorothea Primrose Campbell

Used Form: D. P. Campbell

DPC , a Shetlander who wrote and published during the early nineteenth century, is remarkable both as poet and novelist. She had poems and short fiction printed in London periodicals, and she deserves to be considered not as a regional but as a national novelist.

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Intertextuality and Influence	Anne Bannerman	After her death AB was quickly forgotten. Yet literary historian Stuart Curran has recently noted the influence of her poetry on Dorothea Primrose Campbell . Critic Adriana Craciun , writing for the website Scottish Women...
Literary Setting	Catherine Gore	The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849. title-page but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Textual Features	Christian Isobel Johnstone	CIJ describes traditional Highland women's occupations such as waulking, or the manufacture of flax cloth. Throughout the novel she introduces, explains, and footnotes Gaelic customs (as Dorothea Primrose Campbell does Zetland ones). She also...
Textual Production	Christian Milne	CM 's Simple Poems, on Simple Subjects was published under her (married) name at Aberdeen, by subscription (she celebrated her subscribers in a poem on 20 May) and dedicated to the Duchess of Gordon
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Sarah Josepha Hale	SJH does in the main a fine job in her coverage of British women writers, having something to say even about the extremely obscure. Dorothea Primrose Campbell , for instance (who was living in poverty...

Timeline

2 July 1798

The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or polite repository of amusement and instruction published its first number. Sometimes called The Ladies' Monthly Museum . . . it ran until the 1830s.

Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.

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Pitcher, Edward W. The "Lady’s Monthly Museum". First Series: 1798-1806. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1813

The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers (born at Lerwick in 1858 and left in poverty with her sisters and aged mother after the death of their brother William at the battle of Trafalgar) published her Poems...

Texts

Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Harley Radington. A. K. Newman, 1821.

Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Poems. J. Young, 1811.

Campbell, Dorothea Primrose. Poems. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1816.