Anthologies

Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854

The Making of a Woman Writer

Virginia Blain

Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998

CONTENTS

Introduction

1    Early life and friendship with Robert Southey

Correspondence with Robert Southey (extracts)

Early poems, 1820-30

From Ellen Fitzarthur, 1820
From The Widow's Tale, 1822

The sea of life

From Solitary Hours, 1826

Autumn flowers

The night-smelling stock

Farewell to my friends

The broken bridge

'There is a tongue in every leaf'

'I never cast a flower away'

Ranger's grave. March 1825

Abjuration

The mariner's hymn

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1827

My old dog and I

From The Birth-day... to Which are Added Occasional Verses, 1836

To the sweet-scented cyclamen

The hedgehog

Once upon a time

Occasional poems, 1831-33

The Cat's Tail: Being the History of Childe Merlin. A Tale, 1831
Tales of the Factories, 1833

Verse autobiography, 1836

The Birth-day; a Poem, in Three Parts, 1836

Last poems, 1836-47

From Robin Hood: a Fragment, 1847

The murder glen

Wild flowers (extract)

Written in the fly-leaf of my father's old copy of Izaac Walton's Complete Angler

The landing of the primrose

The young grey head (extract)

The evening walk (extract)

That's what we are

Sonnets:

'Unthinking youth! How prodigal thou art'

'Forgive, O Father! the infirmity'

'On, on upon our mortal course we go'

To an old family portrait

'We came together at life's eventide'

Prose writings

Thoughts on letter writing (extract)
Childhood (extract)
Beauty
Harmless Johnny
Broad Summerford (extract)
Andrew Cleaves (extract)

Appendix 3 Caroline Bowles's earnings

Caroline Bowles Southey: a bibliography
Works cited
Index


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