Two more recent critics were more explicit in relegating Blagden to a social rather than a literary sphere. Writing in 1951, Edward McAleer
argued: It is not for her writings . . . that Isa...
Literary responses
Isa Blagden
IB
believed that her literary strength lay in poetic rather than prose composition, and critics William Raymond
and Alfred Austin
agreed with her appraisal.
Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol.
xii
, 1943, pp. 446-63.
446
Austin, Alfred, and Isa Blagden. “Memoir”. Poems, William Blackwood and Sons, 1873.
viii
Austin found her seven sonnets, The Seven Chords of...
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Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol.