First published in 1998, this volume combines a bio-critical account of Caroline Bowles Southey’s career with a general selection of her works, both poetry and prose, with the latter drawing attention on her remarkable talent as a letter writer. It will appeal to scholars of Romanticism and the Victorian person as well as women’s studies specialists and historians of autobiography.
1. Early Life and Friendship with Robery Southey. 2. Shaping a Career: Negotiating Blackwood’s. 3. A Life in Verse: The Birth-day, Wordsworth and Religion. 4. Marriage and Death.
