The RLF proxy applicant, Thomas Park
, wrote that her situation, her sex, her youth, her infirm health, and above all, her exquisite sensibility, plead with angel-tongue against such exposure.
qtd. in
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Literary responses
Anne Bannerman
The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park
, Joseph Cooper Walker
, and Joseph Martin
, assured Robert Anderson
of their admiration.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
