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 [...]
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 [...]
“‘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 [...]
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 [...]
Women’s Review of Books: The myth of naturally conservative women; Gulag actress, public, poetic, illustrating women
Posted in 20th century culture, feminism, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, womens' films, tagged women's review of books on September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cast of 1932 film Black and White touring Soviet Union, 1932 Dear friends and readers, I’ve not written about Women’s Review of Books on the listservs I’m on of late, mostly I’ve been too busy, or they have not as a whole struck me. This fall issue seemed to me of such high caliber I [...]
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 [...]
Foremother Poetry: an excellent anthology, Jane Dowson’s Women’s Poetry of the 1930s
Posted in 20th century culture, Foremother Poetry, politics, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Jane Dowson, Mary Hays, Maureen Honey, Nancy Cunard, Paula Feldman, Ruth Pitter on August 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, Another in my series of foremother poet blogs, a third recommending an anthology: Jane Dowson’s Women’s Poetry of the 1930s. This anthology suggests that much as I loved Alison Light’s Forever England and Nicole Beauman’s The Greatest Profession, both on women novelists and memoirists from early to mid-20th century England, Light’s [...]
