Anthologies

Victorian Women Poets 1830-1901:

An Anthology

Edited by Jennifer Breen

London: J. M. Dent; Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1994

[Everyman]

CONTENTS

Notes on the Authors

Note on the Editor

Chronology of Events

Introduction

Note on the Text

Caroline Norton

My Heart Is Like a Withered Nut

I Was Not False To Thee

Sonnet 4

Sonnet 5

Charlotte Brontë

Presentiment

The Teacher's Monologue

Stanzas

"The Autumn day its course has run . . ."

"Early wrapt in slumber deep . . ."

Lost in the Hills

Anne Brontë

The North Wind

Lines Written at Thorp Green

Appeal

The Captive Dove

Night

The Arbour

Domestic Peace

Emily Brontë

Hope

Song "The linnet in the rocky dells . . ."

To Imagination

Faith and Despondency

Remembrance

The Philosopher

No Coward Soul is Mine

Frances Anne Kemble

Sonnet "Whene'er I recollect . . ."

Sonnet "I hear a voice . . ."

Eliza Cook

Song of the Spirit of Poverty

Mary Howitt

The Barley-Mowers' Song

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

From Sonnets from the Portuguese: Sonnets 1, 3, 4, 5, 14, 19, 24, 43

From Aurora Leigh, Book I

Christina Rossetti

Song "When I am dead . . ."

Song "Oh roses for the flush of youth"

Remember

The Bourne

A Triad

A Birthday

Winter: My Secret

Goblin Market

The Queen of Hearts

Autumn Violets

A Christmas Carol

From Donna Innominata

Sonnets 7, 10, 11, 12, 14

Adelaide Procter

A Woman's Question

A Love Token

Janet Hamilton

Rhymes for the Times

George Eliot

In a London Drawingroom

Brother and Sister

Dorothea Mary Ogilvy

The Weary Spinnin O't

Alice Meynell

Renouncement

The Poet to His Childhood

Edith Nesbit

Vies Manquées

The Wife of All Ages

Over and Undone

January

Song

Love and Knowledge

The Claim

Constance Naden

Love Versus Learning

The New Orthodoxy

Natural Selection

Margaret Veley

A Town Garden

Sonnet

Amy Levy

A Minor Poet

Ballade of an Omnibus

Youth and Love

Contradictions

In September

Jean Ingelow

Loss and Waste

Compensation

Agnes Mary Robinson

Darwinism

Selva Oscura

Margaret L. Woods

The Sowers

Dora Greenwell

Fidelity Rewarded

Mathilde Blind

Only a Smile

Michael Field

Across a Gaudy Room

Second Thoughts

May Kendall

In the Drawing-Room

Dollie Radford

From Our Emancipated Aunt in Town

Augusta Webster

From Mother and Daughter

Sonnets 16, 24, 25, 27

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Slowly

Gone

The Other Side of the Mirror

An Anniversary

Not Yet

He Knoweth that the Dead Are Thine

At Dead of Night

I Ask of Thee

L'Oiseau Bleu

Dora Sigerson

My Neighbour's Garden

Beware

At Pompeii

Moira O'Neill

Sea Wrack

The Grand March

Notes

Critical Responses

Acknowledgments

Select Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of First Lines and Titles


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