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
.
EHD
considered William Heinemann
, her publisher, as also a close personal friend.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
51, 77, 187
She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind
(stepfather of the poet...
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...
Textual Features
Ellen Mary Clerke
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...
Education
Rosa Nouchette Carey
She then attended the Ladies' Institute
at St John's Wood in North London, where she formed a friendship with the future poet Mathilde Blind
which was later ended by conflict between her High Church views...
Friends, Associates
Rosa Nouchette Carey
After Blind
, Carey counted among her friends the novelist Ellen Wood
. Her life seems to have been quite retired, and centred on her family. From about 1875 she lived with another friend, a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rosa Nouchette Carey
One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)...
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.