Johnston, Ellen. Autobiography, Poems, and Songs. William Love.
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Robert Napier
Standard Name: Napier, Robert
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellen Johnston | The substantial collection of poems runs to more than two hundred pages. The opening piece, An Address to Napier's Dockyard, Lancefield, Finnieston, establishes a first-person poetic persona as she addresses the factory itself and... |
| Publishing | Ellen Johnston | The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria
, Benjamin Disraeli
, Robert Napier
, and Lord Raglan
, as well as other members of the nobility and the army... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Ellen Johnston | She writes that she was motivated to send her pieces to weekly newspapers because, in the wake of her daughter's birth, duty called me forth to turn the poetic gift that nature had given me... |
| Health | Ellen Johnston | Within a few years of her daughter's birth, EJ
's health deteriorated so that she could no longer endure factory work. |
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