Thomas Hood

Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare and Thomas Hood . Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley ; ML corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

EC was long remembered for the fact that her poem Poor Hood led to the erection of a memorial at the neglected grave of poet Thomas Hood , whose writing shared many of the same...

FAK 's literary allusions here are interesting. Thomas Hood 's The Song of the Shirt is cited more than once, though Kortright insists that the governess is worse off than the seamstress because she is...

Reviewers loved this volume. They praised MB 's power of characterisation in The Prophecy of St Oran, the sonorous beauty of her lines combined with simple and straightforward vocabulary, her dramatic power, and...

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

After this journal ceased publication in 1841, she sent poems to the editor of the Athenæum instead, promising future contributions in exchange for a copy of the magazine. The editor accepted, and in the following...

IC 's article has a documentary feel typical of much social investigation literature, particularly the seamstress narrative popularized by writers such as Thomas Hood , Henry Mayhew , and Elizabeth Gaskell in her novel Ruth...

Fallen women were by then a cultural obsession. Caroline Bowles had treated the subject in Ellen Fitzarthur (1820). Thomas Hood had depicted both the exploitation of seamstresses in The Song of the Shirt (1843) and...

She dedicated it to her childhood friend and fellow popular novelist Annie Thomas Cudlip , with the famous refrain from Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's lyric My Heart and I: now we are tired—My Heart...

The Dublin University Magazine printed The Embroidress at Midnight by Mrs. James Gray late Miss M. A. Browne, a poem of protest about treatment of women workers in the textile trade.

Under ED 's editorship, the periodical combined literary contributions (such as poetry by Christina Rossetti and fiction by Thomas Adolphus Trollope ) with book reviews, reports of bodies such as the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

Focusing on London's 15,000 milliners, she characterises them as the doomed slaves of our glittering grandeur, living a deathly life of torment for the gratification of wealth, which immolates them almost without a thought or...