Elizabeth Colville (who later wrote as RL
) married her second husband, Edward Foster Coulson
, after nearly three years as a widow.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, 1877, p. v - xxiii.
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Literary responses
Roxburghe Lothian
The book aroused the antagonism of Catholic
reviewers, not because of its author's gender (which remained cloaked behind her pseudonym) but because of its attitudes.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Editing her memoirs, her second husband
gave five or six...
Textual Features
Roxburghe Lothian
RL
begins on her parents' story with an air of romance: the approaching marriage of a fair, pale girl and a tall soldier.
Lothian, Roxburghe, and Edward Foster Coulson. Lizzie Lothian. C. Kegan Paul, 1877.
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She quickly moves to focus on her own childhood memories...
Textual Production
Roxburghe Lothian
RL
's autobiographical romance Lizzie Lothian was posthumously published by her widower
the year after her death, in order to gratify her children and a few friends.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, 1877, p. v - xxiii.
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Textual Production
Roxburghe Lothian
Its title in print—Lizzie Lothian. An Autobiographical Romance. By E. K. Coulson. With an Introduction by E. F. Coulson—seems to draw attention to the similarity of the names of wife and husband. In...
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Coulson, Edward Foster, and Roxburghe Lothian. “Introduction”. Lizzie Lothian, C. Kegan Paul, 1877, p. v - xxiii.
Lothian, Roxburghe, and Edward Foster Coulson. Lizzie Lothian. C. Kegan Paul, 1877.