William E. A. Axon

Standard Name: Axon, William E. A.

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Literary responses Anna Jane Vardill
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV , in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, 1970, pp. 57-88.
65-6
In 1821 Alfred Beauchamp , editor of the Magazine, praised...
Literary responses Anna Jane Vardill
The Monthly Review (which had given high praise to Rogers for The Pleasures of Memory and only slightly less high praise to Campbell for The Pleasures of Hope) gave Vardill a review of two...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
William E. A. Axon read to a meeting of the Royal Society of Literature a paper about AJV , offering previously unknown information about her and her poem Christobell, A Gothic Tale, and debunking...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
The question of Christobell's authorship continued to be intermittently debated during the nineteenth century. Not until 1908 did William E. A. Axon settle the question in favour of Vardill.
qtd. in
Haven, Richard. “Anna Vardill Niven’s ’Christobell’: An Addendum”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 1976, pp. 117-18.
117

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Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, 1970, pp. 57-88.