Coventry Patmore

The narrative, with its freight of evocative description, moves back and forth between successive generations of the Dane family, beginning with the newly-married Victorian pair, Griselda and John (who become, respectively, a reluctantly full-time house-manager...

The Lure of Eve is prefaced with a quotation from Coventry Patmore 's poem The Toys. It presents a group of idealistic young men at the beginning of mostly creative careers: Deane the painter...

Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before...

The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally...

Coventry Patmore praised the volume hyperbolically in the Fortnightly Review: At rare intervals the world is startled by the phenomenon of a woman whose qualities of mind and heart seem to demand a revision...

Literary historian Rebecca Lynne Russell Baird indicates that during this time CGbecame known as somewhat of a recluse who let little be known of her home life. Yet this was the period during...

VW worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service

AM was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during...

Four of the poems had previously appeared in magazines. Of these, Why wilt thou Chide?, which was addressed to Coventry Patmore and responded to his violent jealousy of AM 's friendships with other men...

CN 's prolific reviewing included a signed notice, published in Macmillan's Magazine on 8 September 1863, of Coventry Patmore 's The Angel in the House and Christina Rossetti 's Goblin Market.

In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...

AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...

Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively wrote, I am always surprised that the...

EB set out in her diary to record the most remarkable Providences of God, with respect to her self and others. Much of the record consists of such passages as: I rose early, and...

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans