Anthologies

Biography/Criticism of Individual Poets

General Criticism

  

Victorian Women Poets Bibliography

 

ANTHOLOGIES

Auden, W. H., ed. Nineteenth-Century British Minor Poets. New York: Delacorte, 1966; London: Faber and Faber, 1967. PR 1221 .A8. Includes Jane Taylor, EBB, CR, EB, Jean Ingelow, Margaret Veley, Mary Coleridge.

Bax, Clifford, and Meum Stewart, comp. The Distaff Muse: An Anthology of Poetry Written by Women. London: Hollis and Carter, 1949. PR 1177 .B35.

Bernikow, Louise, comp. The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America, 1552-1950. New York: Vintage, 1974. PS 589 .B4.

Buckley, Jerome and George Benjamin Woods. Poetry of the Victorian Period. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1955. PR 1223 .W6.

Davis, Gwenn and Beverly Joyce, comps. Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. London: Mansell, 1991. Reference Z 2013.5 .W6 D38.

Dyce, Alexander. Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged. London: T. Rodd, 1827. Special Collections (Leigh Hunt) 810.28 .D99s.

Fletcher, Ian. British Poetry and Prose, 1870-1905. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. PR 1145 .B74. Includes Margaret Veley, Ellice Hopkins, Augusta Webster, Alice Meynell, Mary Coleridge, Mary Duclaux, Charlotte Mew.

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar, comps. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English. New York: Norton, 1985. PS 508 .W7 N67.

Juhasz, Suzanne. Naked and Fiery Forms: Modern American Poetry By Women: A New Tradition. New York: Octagon, 1976. PS 151 .J8.

Kelly, A.A., ed. Pillars of the House: An Anthology of Verse by Irish Women from 1690 to the Present. Dublin: Wolfhound, 1988. PR 8853 .P54.

Miles, Alfred Henry, ed. The Poets and the Poetry of the Century. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1898. PR 1221 .M5. Special Collections (Leigh Hunt) 810.28 .M64.

Ricks, Christopher, ed. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. London: Oxford, 1987. PR 1223 .N48. Includes EB, CB, EBB, CR, Elizabeth Siddal, Adelaide Anne Procter, Dora Greenwell, GE, Louisa Guggenberger, Alice Meynell, Jean Ingelow, E. Nesbit, A. Mary Robinson, Amy Levy, Dollie Radford, Katherine Tynan, Mary Coleridge, Michael Field, and Dora Shorter.

Rossetti, Christina Georgina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Ed. Rebecca W.

Crump. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. PR 5237 .A1.

Scott, Diana, comp. Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers. London: Virago, 1982. PR 1177 .B7.

Sharp, Mrs. William. Women's Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch, and Irish Women. London: Scott, 1887.

Stanford, Ann, comp. and ed. The Women Poets in English: An Anthology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. PR 1177 .S8.

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BIOGRAPHY/CRITICISM OF INDIVIDUAL POETS:

Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924. London: Hutchinson, 1987. PR 4149 .B4 Z59.

Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, with a Memoir by Edith Sichel. London: Constable, 1911. Undergraduate PR 6005.03 A16.

Cooper, Helen. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Woman and Artist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. PR 4194 .C66.

Crump, Rebecca W. Charlotte and Emily Bronte: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982. Z 8122 .C78.

David, Deidre. Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth

Barret Browning, George Eliot. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: McMillan, 1987. PR 469 .F44 D38.

Guy, Patricia A. Women's Poetry Index. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1985. Reference Folio PN 1024 .G89.

Jones, Kathleen. Learning Not To Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti. Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire: Windrush, 1991. PR 5238 .J66.

Leighton, Angela. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1986. PR 4194 .L45.

Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. London; New York: Quartet Books, 1989. PR5452 .S19 Z75.

-----.The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. London; New York: Quartet Books, 1985. N 6767.5 .P7 M37.

Meredith, George. The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell, with Annotations Thereto, 1896-1907. London; San Francisco: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Special Collections (x-coll) PR 5013 .A47.

Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1929. Undergraduate PR 5021 .M3 M4.

Moore, Doris Langley-Levy. Edith Nesbit, A Biography. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1966. Browsing PR 4149 .B4 Z7.

Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow, Victorian Poetess. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. PR 4819 .Z5 P4.

Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and Her Literary Generation. New York: Dutton, 1925. 828 .M614.T.

Tytler, Sarah. The Songstress of Scotland. London: Strahan, 1871. Photocopy.

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GENERAL CRITICISM:

Hanley, Evelyn A. The Subjective Vision: Six Victorian Women Poets. New York: Astra, 1978. Includes Emily Bronte, EBB, CR, Alice Meynell, Mary Coleridge, Dora Shorter.

Harrison, Antony H. Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems: Intertextuality and Ideology. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. PR 595 .R6 H37. Includes CR and EBB, among other poets.

Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women's Poetry. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. PR 85 .W58 H52.

Homans, Margaret. Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. PR 589 .W6 H6.

Kaplan, Cora. Salt and Bitter Good: Three Centuries of English and American Women Poets.

New York: Paddington Press, 1975. Folio PR 111 .K3.

Montefiore, Jan. Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing. London; New York: Pandora, 1987. PS 310 .F45 M66.

Robertson, Eric. English Poetesses. London: Cassell, 1883.

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