Virginia Blain

Standard Name: Blain, Virginia

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Caroline Bowles
The future poet CB was born, an only child, at Buckland Manor near Lymington in Hampshire.
Scholar Virginia Blain discusses the confusion surrounding CB 's date and place of birth. The various dates given...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Bowles
CB was too old to have children with Robert Southey , and the children of his first marriage were not disposed to welcome her warmly. Virginia Blain speculates that their marriage was not consummated. Southey's...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Bowles
Robert Southey died in March 1843, the immediate cause being typhus.
Blain provides varying dates of death for Southey throughout her biography of CB , including the 20th and the 23rd of March. Most sources...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Mary Hamilton
Virginia Blain in ODNB suggests that EMH engaged with Anne Disney in a romantic friendship reminiscent of a love affair.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Bowles
Her father had an adopted son, Colonel Bruce , who lived in India. Scholar Virginia Blain speculates that the colonel may have been the illegitimate son of Charles Bowles.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
18-19
Friends, Associates Caroline Bowles
CB rarely travelled far from her home in Lymington. After the death of her old nurse in 1824, she lived alone. Alfred H. Miles speculates that her parents' deaths tended to strengthen her nervous...
Literary responses Mary Ann Browne
The Monthly Review, though anxious that publicity might not be good for the young poet or her talent, nevertheless estimated her talent highly, found in the title poem the genuine divine fire, and...
Literary responses Mary Ann Browne
The Monthly Review notice expressed regret both that MAB was so prolific so early in her career, and that nothing short of marriage was likely to stop her writing.
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
260
The Athenæum review quite unfairly...
Literary responses Mary Ann Browne
A posthumous review in the Dublin University Magazine of Sketches from the Antique noted the gravity and rich melody of these poems (their descriptions, it said, apparently with approval, had no dash or storm)...
Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
A notice in the Westminster Review in November 1845 decribed this book as a small work for the young, explaining and enforcing the principal points of religion and morals in verse and in prose...
Material Conditions of Writing Eliza Mary Hamilton
The collection is dedicated to her brother, William Rowan Hamilton .
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 31-51.
31, 43
William Wordsworth thought highly of her writing. In a letter dated 10 January 1833, he wrote to her, arguing that women should...
Publishing Caroline Bowles
Most of the contents had first appeared in Blackwood's.
qtd. in
Hickok, Kathleen. “’Burst Are the Prison Bars’: Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic Reputation”. Romanticism and Women Poets, edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, pp. 192-13.
200
Virginia Blain notes that Bowles entered into strenuous pre-publication negotiations with William Blackwood when she refused to accept all his editorial suggestions.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18.
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A...
Reception L. E. L.
LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain has argued, she became (with Hemans , and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor...
Reception L. E. L.
More recently, however, LEL has been subject to critical revaluation, as feminist critics have questioned the historical processes and aesthetic standards that led to her exclusion from the literary canon, and are developing increasingly complex...
Reception Constance Naden
Recently her writing has been included in Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology, edited by Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton , 1995; in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, edited by Isobel Armstrong ,...

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Texts

Fletcher, Robert P. “ I leave the page half-writ: Narrative Discoherence in Michael Fields Underneath the BoughWomens Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 164-82.
Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
Blain, Virginia. “’Be these his daughters?’ Caroline Bowles Southey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disruption in a Patriarchal Poetics of Women’s Autobiography”. Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry, edited by Barbara Garlick, Rodopi, 2002, pp. 1-22.
Waldron, Mary. “’This Muse-born Wonder’: The Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 113-26.
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
Blain, Virginia. “Anonymity and the Discourse of Amateurism: Caroline Bowles Southey Negotiates Blackwoods 1820-1847”. Victorian Journalism, edited by Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris, Queensland University Press, 1998, pp. 1-18.
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
Blain, Virginia, and Isobel Grundy. Conversation about Charlotte Mew Papers with Isobel Grundy.
Blain, Virginia, and Isobel Grundy. Emails about Michael Field to Isobel Grundy.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
Mukherjee, Meenakshi. “Hearing Her Own Voice: Defective Acoustics in Colonial India”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 207-29.
Lootens, Tricia. “Hemans and her American Heirs: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry and National Identity”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan Press, 1999, pp. 243-60.
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
Grundy, Isobel. “Mary Seymour Montague: Anonymity and ’Old Satyrical Codes’”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, MacMillan Press, 1999, pp. 67-80.
Armstrong, Isobel. “Msrepresentation: Codes of Affect and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.
Blain, Virginia. “Queer Sensations: Menken, Mazeppa and the Purloined Letter”. ’Antipodes’ Victorian Studies Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Marx, Edward. “Reviving Laurence Hope”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong et al., Macmillan, 1999, pp. 230-42.
Peterson, Linda H. “Rewriting ’A History of the Lyre’: Letitia Landon, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the (Re)Construction of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Poet”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 115-34.
Curran, Stuart. “Romantic Women Poets: Inscribing the Self”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 145-66.
Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
53
, No. 3, pp. 210-36.
Doody, Margaret Anne. “Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.
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.
Sales, Roger. “The Maid and the Minister’s Wife: Literary Philanthropy in Regency York”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 127-41.
Blain, Virginia. “Thinking Back Through our Aunts: Harriet Martineau and Tradition in Women’s Writing”. Women: A Cultural Review, Vol.
1
, 1990, pp. 223-39.
Groth, Helen. “Victorian Women Poets and Scientific Narratives”. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 325-51.