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 »
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 [...]
“‘What are men to rocks and mountains?’” The content of Ann Radcliffe’s Landscapes
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, gothic, listserve life, Margaret Oliphant, novels of sensibility, painting, Poetry, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Ann Radcliffe, Beatrice Battaglia, book illustrations, heroine's text on December 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840), Man and Woman [?] Gazing at the Moon (1819) My friendly (and kind) readers, Will I hope remember last week I told of how I had come to decide to fulfill a long-held desire, to write a paper where I would have to gaze at, study, write about the landscapes of [...]
EC/ASECS conference on liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: enslaved families; professional women, Priestley, the Paterno library
Posted in 18th century, America 18thcentury, conference report, Conferences, feminism, library books, Plays, Poetry, politics, science, Slavery, Theater, women's novels, tagged Elizabeth Farren, elizabeth inchbald, enslaved women, gambling as liberty, heroine's text, hester thrale piozzi, mary wells, Susannah Centivre on November 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The family broken up in a slave auction Dear friends and readers, I continue my report of the fine conference (East Central Region meeting of ASECS at Penn State) centering on the concept of liberty in the long 18th century. Over the course of three days, there emerged a developing definition for different groups of [...]
Foremother poet: Stevie Smith (1902-71)
Posted in feminism, Foremother Poetry, Poetry, women's poetry, women's art, tagged book illustrations, foremother poet on September 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Stevie Smith’s drawing underneath her poem, “My Soul” Dear friends and readers, Stevie Smith is one of my favorite 20th century poets. I’ve been wanting to write a foremother poet blog for her, and waiting until I could re-see the movie, Stevie (1978), based on her life, and starring Glenda Jackson (director Robert Enders, writer [...]
Scottish Women Poets: Morelle Smith, Sue Gutteridge, Liz Lochhead
Posted in 20th century culture, feminism, Foremother Poetry, Poetry, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Ana Mendieta, Liz Lochhead, Meg Bateman, Morelle Smith, nell blaine, Sue Gutteridge on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The View from Torr Nell (Scotland) by Nell Blaine (1922-96) Dear friends and readers, Here is the second of three blogs promised on Scottish women poets from Catherine Kerrigan’s anthology supplemented by whatever other books and anthologies I could find in my house. The five modern women poets in the volume whose work resonated with [...]
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: Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
Posted in 18th century, Austen, feminism, Foremother Poetry, Poetry, Travel Writing, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Francis Wilson, Grasmere Journals, John Constable, Passionate Sisterhood, Sara Coleridge on May 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
John Constable (1776-1837), Gillingham Bridge, Dorsetshire (1823) Dear friends and readers, I had planned to write this week’s foremother poet blog on Dorothy Wordsworth after reading a poem to her by Carol Ann Duffy this week. Just as I was set to write it, I began looking for a few pictures and found that as [...]
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
Posted in 18th century, feminism, Foremother Poetry, Poetry, Samuel Richardson, women's poetry, women's art on May 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Elizabeth Carter (idealized) by Katherine Read (1762) Dear friends and readers, I’m several days late for this week’s foremother poet. First I couldn’t make up my mind which poet to write about, and then I lost heart. But tonight inspirited by Elizabeth Carter’s “A Dialogue,” in love with her picture from Elizabeth Eger and Lucy [...]
Foremother Poet: Elizabeth Hands (fl 1789)
Posted in 18th century, comic poetry, feminism, Foremother Poetry, historical fiction, Poetry, political novels/films, satire, women's memoirs, women's art, tagged foremother poet, Paula Feldman on April 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Henry Robert Morland, A (Later) 18th century female servant Dear friends and readers, As the anthology of Scottish woman poets I want to use for blogs on their poetry has not yet arrived, I’ve decided to blog about another poet about whom little is known, but whose poetry is felicitious. (It’s not hard to find [...]
