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Archive for the ‘19th century poetry’ Category

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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Blue Fairy Book, compiled (and written by) Andrew Lang Alice in Wonderland — in translation Dear friends and readers, I am come to the fourth and last blog on this conference. Today topics included the fantastical and imaginative (fairy books and math and Alice in Wonderland), just its seeming opposite, medical memoirs, and large [...]

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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 [...]

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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 SablĂ©”) George Eliot, 16 March 1877, Sketch by Princess Louise Dear friends and readers, I’m [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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