Title Victorian women poets / edited by William B. Thesing

Published Detroit : Gale Research, ©1999

Online access available from: Dictionary of Literary Biography Online (Gale)    View Resource Record

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 380 pages) : illustrations Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 199 Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 199 Contents Sarah Fuller Flowers Adams -- Cecil Frances Alexander -- Louisa Sarah Bevington -- Isabella Blagden -- Mathilde Blind -- Anne Brontë-- Charlotte Brontë -- Emily Brontë -- Frances Browne -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane -- Caroline Clive (V) -- Sara Coleridge -- Eliza Cook -- Helen Lady Dufferin, Countess of Gifford -- Charlotte Elliott -- Dora Greenwell -- Janet Hamilton -- Frances Ridley Havergal -- Emily Hickey -- Mary Howitt -- Maria Jane Jewsbury -- Ellen Johnston -- Harriet Hamilton King -- Lady Lindsay (Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy Lindsay) -- Constance Naden -- Caroline Norton -- Eliza Ogilvy -- Emily Pfeiffer -- May Probyn -- Adelaide Anne Proctor -- Arabella Shore -- Louisa Shore -- Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal -- Menella Bute Smedley -- Henrietta Tindal -- Margaret Veley -- Lady Jane Francesca Wilde Summary Essays on Victorian women poets writing between 1932 and 1920; an age that was generally cautious or hostile toward the literary ambitions of women but also saw the creation of The Society for the Employment of Women, which encouraged women to enter such trades as publishing. Many women wrote regularly for periodicals, annuals or album books, gift books and anthologies of poetry. Many of the poets during this time empathized with women shunned by society Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English poetry -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries English poetry -- Women authors -- Dictionaries English poetry -- 19th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries English poetry -- 19th century -- Dictionaries English poetry -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries English poetry -- 20th century -- Dictionaries Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Dictionaries Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Dictionaries Women poets, English -- Biography -- Dictionaries Genre/Form Bio-bibliography. Biographies. Dictionaries. History. Form Electronic book Author Thesing, William B. LC no. 98035216

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