Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mathilde Blind
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Standard Name: Blind, Mathilde
Birth Name: Mathilde Cohen
Birth Name: Mathilde Blind
Pseudonym: Claude Lake
Indexed Name: Matilda Blind
MB
was one of the leading poets of the later nineteenth century; her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound and image with vigorous narrative, delineation of character, emotional expressiveness, and engagement with intellectual ideas. It ranges from long narrative or philosophical poems to songs and sonnets. She also wrote journalism, translation, literary criticism, biography, and a novel. Much of her work is instinct with reforming and feminist opinion, reflecting the influence of George Eliot
, George Sand
, and especially Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.
This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878.
Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press.
119-23
Not all recognitions brought pleasure. A reference work called Men of the Time...
Literary responses
Constance Naden
William R. Hughes
provided for the Midland Naturalist a review of this book which CN
called kind.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
38-9
. The Woman's World (edited by Oscar Wilde
) gave the book one of its several...
Literary responses
Constance Naden
George Saintsbury
, writing in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, grouped CN
as a poet with Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Michael Field
. He called her writing a...
Occupation
Charles Darwin
Early in his career, CD
received praise for his work as a geologist, but as a naturalist he achieved fame—after he had undertaken a scientific expedition to South America and especially the Galapagos Islands—for...
Publishing
Nina Hamnett
Its publication was marked by an exhibition of NH
's drawings and paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery
in Litchfield Street, London. The opening, on 8 June, was attended by many of NH
's friends...
This and the following poem, Jewels, place EMC
in the company of her contemporaries Mathilde Blind
and Constance Naden
by employing the language and concepts of recent science in lyric poetry. Other poems are...
Textual Features
Amy Levy
Her contributions include descriptive pieces (on, for instance, the Florence ghetto, which she presents as thronged with ghosts) and analytical essays on, for instance, our national free-masonry of wit; our family joke:
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
126
that...
Textual Features
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
A Woman's Vengeance presents a speaker who has rejected an unworthy lover and found solace in nursing. The poet's conjuring of the urban environment and its social inequities—Its million hurrying feet that beat the...
Textual Production
Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
was by this time establishing a name for herself as an poet. In 1890 Elizabeth A. Sharp
included three of her poems in Women Poets of the Victorian Era. The anthology also features...
Textual Production
L. S. Bevington
Until recently, comment on LSB
has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles
remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
