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Early Nineteenth-Century Prose
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Halpern, S. Smith in the Edinburgh Review. BNYPL Nov 1962.
Schneider, D. G. Sydney Smith in America to 1900: Two checklists.
BNYPL 70 1966.
Halpern, S. Sydney Smith. Boston 1967.
Mackey, Howard. Verse and nonsense: the rhymes of Sydney Smith.
Research Stud 39 1971.
Bell, A. Sydney Smith. Oxford 1980, rptd 1982.
John Sterling 1806–44
Collections
Poetical works. Ed R. W. Griswold, Philadelphia 1842.
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Thoughts on the foreign policy of England by Jacob Sternwall. 1827.
FitzGeorge: a novel. 3 vols 1832. Anon.
Arthur Coningsby: a novel. 3 vols 1833. Anon.
Poems. 1839.
The election: a poem in seven books. 1841. Anon.
Strafford: a tragedy. 1843.
Essays and tales: collected and edited with a memoir of his life by
Julius Charles Hare. 2 vols 1848. Vol 1 historical and critical essays
(Christabel, Napier’s War in the Peninsula, Montaigne, Carlyle,
Tennyson etc); vol 2 aphorisms, apologues etc.
Letters
Letters to a friend [William Coningham]. Brighton [1848] (priv ptd),
1851 (as Twelve letters), Bath [1872].
A correspondence between Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed
E. W. Emerson, Boston 1897.
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Carlyle, T. The life of Sterling. 1851, 1852; ed W. H. White, Oxford
1907 (WC).
Gilfillan, G. In his Galleries of literary portraits vol 2, Edinburgh
1856.
Ince, R. B. Calverley and some Cambridge wits of the nineteenth
century. 1929. Includes a study of Sterling’s career.
Tuell, A. K. Sterling: a representative Victorian. New York 1941.
Burchell, S. C. The approaching darkness: a Victorian father to his
son. YULG 28 1953.
Agnes Strickland 1796–1874 and Elizabeth
Strickland 1794–1875
All works by Agnes unless otherwise indicated; the sisters’ collaborations are
listed under Collaborative works.
See U. Pope-Hennessy, Agnes Strickland, biographer of the Queens of
England, 1796–1874, 1940. BL holds mss of Agnes’s sketches and essays pbd
in the Album 1827–8, and her agreements with the publishers R. Bentley. The
revised proofs of Lives of Queens of Scotland are in the Nat Lib of Scotland.
See also LR 2, pp. 907–9.
All works by Agnes unless otherwise indicated; the sisters’ collaborations
are listed under Collaborative works.
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Agnes Strickland’s early works, for children, are variously difficult to find,
date and attribute with confidence: see U. Pope-Hennessy, Agnes
Strickland, which also attributes to Elizabeth a children’s tale called
Disobedience (1818).
Nursery fables. [1817–21.]
Guthred: the widow’s slave. The Druid’s retreat. 1821. Another edn
London and Norwich 1876. Guthred rptd in Historical tales of
illustrious British children, 1833.
The moss house: in which many of the works of nature are rendered
a source of amusement to children. ‘1822’ [1823].
The tell tale: an original collection of moral and amusing stories.
1823.
The aviary: or an agreeable visit. Intended for children. 1824.
The little tradesman: or a peep into English industry. 1824.
The use of sight: or I wish I were Julia. Intended for the amusement
and instruction of children. 1824.
Prejudice reproved. 1826.
The rival Crusoes: or the shipwreck. Also, A voyage to Norway: and
The fisherman’s cottage. Founded on facts. [1826], [1830] (2nd and
3rd edns), 1836 (4th edn), 1845 (5th edn), 1851 (6th edn), rptd New
York 1861, 1881; tr Fr 1834. Later rewritten with same title by W. H.
G. Kingston.
The young emigrants: or pictures of Canada. 1826.
Worcester Field or the Cavalier: a poem in four cantos, with historical
notes. 1827.
The seven ages of woman, and other poems. 1827, 1833, 1847.
The keepsake guineas: or the best use of money. 1828.
Sketches from nature: or hints to juvenile naturalists. 1830.
Rally round your colours and Banners of blue. 1832. Tory election
songs.
Demetrius: a tale of modern Greece: in three cantos. With other
poems. 1833.
A visit to the banks of Jordan: designed for children . . . showing how
they may pass over ‘on dry ground’. 1834.
The broken heart: and the bridal. [1835.]
The pilgrims of Walsingham: or tales of the Middles Ages. An historical
romance. 3 vols 1835, 1 vol New York [1854]. The royal
sisters rptd Boston 1845. Don Froila and his ten daughters rptd
Boston 1845.
Tales of the school-room. 1835, Providence RI 1839, 1842.
Floral sketches, fables, and other poems. [1836.] New edn [1861] with
coloured illustrations (pbd without Agnes’s permission).
Thoughts for the sea: designed as a companion for a voyage. [183?]
Anthology.
Queen Victoria from her birth to her bridal. 2 vols 1840.
Alda: the British captive. 1841; tr Fr 1892.
Narratives of nature, and history book for young naturalists. [1845.]
Historic scenes and poetic fancies. [1850.] Includes some poems
from earlier publications.
The birthday gift: a Christmas and New Year’s present. [1852.]
The sea-side offering. Edinburgh 1856 (priv ptd).
Old friends and new acquaintances. 2 vols 1860, 2nd ser 1861.
Contributions to annuals and anecdotes of rural life.
How will it end? 3 vols 1865, 1865 (2nd edn). Novel.
The royal Christian martyr: St Edmund, the last King of East
Anglia. 1870.
Lives of the last four princesses of the Royal House of Stuart. 1872.
Contributions to periodicals
Monody on the death of Princess Charlotte. Norwich Mercury 1817.
Essays and sketches in the Album, 1827–8.
Fisher’s juvenile scrap-book. 1837–9. With Bernard Barton.
Jackson’s juvenile scrap-book. 1849. With her sister Jane Margaret
Strickland.
For Agnes’s contributions to the NMM and Macmillan’s Mag, see
Wellesley vol 5. Elizabeth edited the Court Jnl for several years from 1830,
and Agnes sometimes contributed to it stories on English history. For Agnes’s
contributions to annuals, see A. Boyle, An index to the annuals vol 1,
1967.
Collaborative works
Poems by the Rev J. Mitford, Miss Agnes Strickland and others,
extracted from J. Raw’s pocket book. 1830.
Pic-nic papers. Ed Charles Dickens 1841. Agnes contributed two tales.
All the following works were collaborations between Agnes and Elizabeth
Strickland, but Elizabeth’s name never appeared on the title pages.
Historical tales of illustrious British children. 1833, Boston [184?]
with title Historical tales of illustrious children, 1847, new edn
[1858] illustr G. Measom. Various US edns up to 1890s with title