Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | Procter's poem To M.M.H., which later appeared as A Retrospect, expresses her feelings for her friend: Some gentle spirit—Love I thought— Built many a shrine of pain; Though each false Idol fell to... |
Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | |
Textual Features | Adelaide Procter | Almost all the poems she published in the first few years of her association with Household Words were, according to Gill Gregory
, conventional, mourning, didactic and devotional lyrics. Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate. 69 |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | This poem was highly regarded by Bessie Rayner Parkes
. Critic Gill Gregory
reads it as a powerful critique of Keble
's authoritative voice and an unsettling of key Tractarian tenets, stemming from AP
's revisionary poetics. Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate. 85 |
Reception | Adelaide Procter | Critic Gill Gregory
argues that this poem is part of a series, with A Woman's Answer (a title Procter adopted from Robert Browning
) and A Woman's Last Word, in which she responds to... |
Reception | 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... |
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