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English poetesses : a series of critical biographies

Eric S. Robertson · 1883 · Scanned text · Free in the US

125,545 words · about 8 h 48 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Eric S. Robertson
Language
English
Published
1883
Length
125,545 words · about 8 h 48 min
Sections
13 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (13)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Chapter I. Page about 1 min
  3. Introduction about 1 h 55 min
  4. Chapter III about 32 min
  5. Chapter IV about 1 h
  6. Chapter V about 32 min
  7. Part II about 28 min
  8. Chapter VI about 41 min
  9. Chapter VII about 55 min
  10. Chapter VIII about 1 h 30 min
  11. Chapter IX. Emily Bronte — George Eliot — Menella Bute Smedley about 20 min
  12. Chapter X. Christina Rossetti — Emily Pfeiffer — Augusta Webster about 31 min
  13. II about 22 min

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Front matter

ENGLISH POETESSES.

A SERIES OF CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES,

WITH

Chapter I. Page

Kaiiikrim: Philips — Aphra Behn--The Duchess of Newcastle— Early Minor Writers. i

CHAPTER H.

Lady Mary Montagu— Mrs. Piozzi— Hannah Cowley- Charlotte Smith ^"j

CHAPTER HI.

Mrs. Barbauld 74

CHAPTER IV.

Anna Seward— Mrs. Opie — Mary Lamh . . 98

CHAPTER V.

SroiiTsii Poetesses: Lady Grisell BaiLlie — Mrs. Cockburn— Jane Elliot — Lady Anne Barnard — The Baroness Nairne— Joanna Baillie . . . .139

CHAPTER VL Mrs. Hemans 182 viii Contents.

CHAPTER VII.

PAGE

" L. E. L."— Adelaide Procter— Caroline Norton— Lady DuFFEkiN — Mrs. Southey — Mary Mitford — Sarah Flower Adams— Sara Colerii)(;e .... 212

CHAPTER VIII.

Mr«. Elizabeth Barrett Browning . . . • / • ^55

CHAPTER IX.

Emily Bronte— George Eliot— Menella Bute Smedley . 321

CHAPTER X.

Christina Rossetti — Emily Pfeiffer — Augusta Webster — Alice Meynell — ^Jean Ingelow — Harriet Hamilton King — Mathilde Blind — Mary Robinson — Other Writers 338

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