Victorian Women Poets Bibliography
ANTHOLOGIES
Armstrong, Isobel, Joseph Bristow with Cath Sharrock. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford: Clarendon Press: NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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.
Blain, Virginia, ed. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman, 2000.
Breen, Jennifer, ed. Victorian Women Poets 1830-1901: An Anthology. Everyman, 1994.
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.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, eds. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
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.
Pritchard, A. E., ed. Poetry by English Women: Elizabethan to Victorian. Continuum Publishing Group, 1993.
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.
Reilly, Catherine W. Winged Words: An Anthology of Victorian Women's Poetry. Dufour Editions, 1994.
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.
BIOGRAPHY/CRITICISM OF INDIVIDUAL POETS:
Aceland, Alice. Caroline Norton. London: Constable, 1948.
Areseneau, Mary, ed. The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts. Ohio U Press, 1998.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924. London: Hutchinson, 1987. PR 4149 .B4 Z59.
Bristow, Joseph, ed. Victorian Women Poets: Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. PR595 W6 V53 1995
Burlinson, Kathryn. Christina Rossetti. Plymouth: British Council, 1998. PR5238 B87 1998
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love: The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. London, NY: Routledge, 1990. PR115 C54 1990
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, ElizabethBarret Browning, George Eliot. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: McMillan, 1987. PR 469 .F44 D38.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and her Friends. London: Collins, 1984. PR 6025 E8 Z65 1984
Foster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. London: Chatto and Windus, 1988. PR 4193 F6 1988
Frank, Katherine. The Empty Mirror: A Biography of Emily Bronte. 1979.
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.
Leighton, Angela, ed. Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart. Charlottesville: U Press of Virginia, 1992. PR 595 W6 L45 1992
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. PR5238 M37 1994
-----. 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.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Boston: Twayne, c. 1983.
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.
GENERAL CRITICISM:
Armstrong, Isobel, ed. Women's Poetry, late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. PR585 W6 W66 1998
Bristow, Joseph, ed. Victorian Women Poets. NY: St. Martin's, 1995.
Cosslett, Tess, ed. Victorian Women Poets. (Longman Critical Readers Series). Addison Wesley Pub., 1997.
Guy, Patricia A. Women's Poetry Index. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1985. Reference Folio PN 1024 .G89.
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.
Halladay, Jean R. Eight Late Victorian Poets Shaping the Artistic Sensibility of an Age: Alice Meynell, John Davidson, Francis Thompson, Mary Coleridge, Katharine Tynan. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
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.
Leighton, Angela, ed. Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. PR595 W6 V52 1996
____ . Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart. UP Virginia, 1992.
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.
Thesing, William B., ed. Victorian Women Poets. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
-----. Victorian and Edwardian Women Poets. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 2000.