Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. By Emma Mason
This book, in the British Council's ‘Writers and their Work’ series, focuses on the work of three women poets who are not well known now, though they were widely read in their own time. Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) was said to be the most widely read woman poet of the 19th century and was memoria...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 376-378 |
| Review of: | Women poets of the nineteenth century (Tavistock : Northcote House, 2006) (Smith, Angela)
Women poets of the nineteenth century (Tavistock : Northcote House, 2006) (Smith, Angela) |
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| Summary: | This book, in the British Council's ‘Writers and their Work’ series, focuses on the work of three women poets who are not well known now, though they were widely read in their own time. Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) was said to be the most widely read woman poet of the 19th century and was memorialised as having a powerful posthumous influence through her poetry, the theological preoccupations of Dora Greenwell (1821–1882) were popular until the early 20th century, and Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1863) was Queen Victoria's favourite poet. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn033 |