Mathilde Blind (1872) by Lucy Madox Brown (1843-94), chalks on grey paper Dear friends and readers, Frances Wilson’s summary of Mathilde Blind’s life in her review of Angela Thirkell’s book which tells the story of the four women-as-partners in Ford Madox Brown’s life, the last of which was Mathilde Blind, is unbeatable for vivacity and [...]
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Foremother Poet: Matilde Blind (1841-96)
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, Italian culture, lesbianism, novels of sensibility, Poetry, politics, prostitution: how treated, women's poetry, women's art, women's ilves, tagged Lucy Madox Brown, Matilde Blind on May 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Dickens and Sandy Welch’s Our Mutual Friend: A book of a river
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, 20th century culture, About this blog, autism, Autobiographical, Charles Dickens, gothic, political novels/films, politics, rape, tagged Our Mutual Friend, Sandy Welch on February 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Filmic rendition in Welch’s movie of the famous opening scenes of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: opening shot of movie; Lizzie (Keeley Hawes) at center; John Harmon (Steven Mackintosh) back from the dead and drowned the last Dear friends and readers, Over the past 10 weeks I’ve been listening to Mil Nicolson (Librivox) read aloud Dickens’s [...]
Foremother Poet: Amy Clampitt (1920-94) amid the thrushes
Posted in 18th century poetry, 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, painting, Plays, Poetry, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Amy Clampitt, birds, thrush poetry on January 19, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Amy Clampitt A Thrush singing in Dorsetshire Dear friends and readers, This foremother poet blog on Amy Clampitt, is done differently from most. I was so taken by her “The Hermit Thrush” after reading a review in Women’s Review of Books of a newly published book of her poems, that I wrote a brief foremother [...]
A serene day to all
Posted in 19th century poetry, Seasonal, women's poetry, tagged RJoyce Heon, Tennyson InMemoriam on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Camille Pissaro, Louvenciennes in Snow (1770s) Dear year-long friends and readers, From the 19th century: Tennyson’s In Memoriam: Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possessed the earth, And calmly fell our Christmas-eve: The yule-clog sparkled keen with frost, No wing of wind the region swept, But [...]
Translated into Estonian!
Posted in 19th century poetry, European Renaissance, feminism, Foremother Poetry, women's poetry, women's art, tagged foremother poet, julia kavanagh on November 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Caterina von Hemessen (1527/8 – ?1566), Portrait of a Lady, 1551 Dear friends and readers, Six years ago now I finished making this large bibliography page for women’s literature (it’s not limited to women poets), and rejoice to say that Anna Galovich has translated it into Estonian and placed it on her website. I am [...]
Scottish women poets: Isabel Pagan (c. 1741-1821), Janet Hamilton (1795-1873), Mary MacKellar, Lochbar (1836-90)
Posted in 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, Poetry, politics, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Isabel Pagan, Janet Hamilton, Mary MacKellar, Scottish art on July 3, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, I’ve not made a foremother poet blog here for a month unless you count my review of Linda Peterson’s Traditions of Women’s Autobiography. I’ve been busy watching Andrew Davies’s movies, working during the day on my Jane Austen Movies book, it’s been hot and at night I’ve been tired and writing [...]
Foremother Poet: George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans Lewes) (1818-80)
Posted in 19th century novels, 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, George Eliot, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, tagged George Henry Lewes, Rosemarie Bodenheimer on May 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In France alone woman has had a vital influence on the development of literature; in France alone the mind of woman has passed like an electric current through the language . . . (George Eliot, “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé”) George Eliot, 16 March 1877, Sketch by Princess Louise Dear friends and readers, I’m [...]
Foremother poet: A. Mary F. Robinson Darmesterer Duclaux (1857-1944)
Posted in 19th century poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, French culture, Italian culture, women's memoirs, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Helen Allingham, poetesses on April 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Sunset near Naples (c 1785), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) [serves as cover illustration for Anne Radcliffe's Sicilian Romance] Dear friends and readers, A. Mary F. Robinson Darmester Duclaux, lyricist, ballad-writer, translator, sybil, wrote of Italy in a Vernon Lee sort of vein during one part of her long career, lived in France, her prose [...]
Foremother Poet: Helen Hunt Jackson (1830?-1885)
Posted in 19th century poetry, 20th century culture, feminism, Foremother Poetry, novels of sensibility, Poetry, political novels/films, Travel Writing, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, womens' films, tagged Helen Hunt Jackson, Loretta young, Maria Fiske, Ramona on March 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Helen Hunt Jackson at her writing desk in Colorado Springs Dear friends and readers, This week’s foremother poet blog is on Helen Hunt Jackson now known among those who read and care about social justice as a strong fighter for Native American rights, a progressive social activist, travel writer, poet of lovely lyrical poems of [...]
