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(2) anthologies
Women’s verse is also represented (sometimes very sparingly) in many of the
anthologies listed in C, above. Best coverage is given in Stedman, 1896.
Dyce, A. Specimens of British poetesses, selected and chronologically
arranged. 1825, 1827.
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell (pseud) [Caroline Matilda Kirkland]. The
ladies wreath: a selection from the female poetic writers of
England and America. Boston and New York 1837, 1839 (2nd edn).
Hunt, L.‘Specimens of British poetesses’. In Men, women and
books: a selection of sketches, essays, and critical memoirs from
his uncollected writings, vol 2 1847.
Bethune, G. W. The British female poets. Philadelphia 1848.
Rowton, F. The female poets of Great Britain, chronologically
arranged, with copious selections and critical remarks. 1848,
Philadelphia [1874] as Cyclopaedia of female poets, with addns.
Coppée, H. A gallery of distinguished English and American female
poets. 1860.
Tytler, Sarah [Henrietta Keddie] and J. L. Watson (ed). The
songstresses of Scotland. 2 vols 1871.
Robertson, E. R. English poetesses: a series of critical biographies
with illustrative extracts. London, Paris and New York 1883.
Sharp, E. A. Women’s voices: an anthology of the most characteristic
poems by English, Scotch and Irish women. By Mrs William
Sharp. 1887.
Sharp, E. A. Women poets of the Victorian era, edited with an introduction
and notes by Mrs William Sharp. [1890.]
Miles, A. H. The poets and the poetry of the century. Vol 7 [1891],
1898.
Miles, A. H. The poets and poetry of the nineteenth century: Joanna
Baillie to Jean Ingelow. Vol 8 [1907].
Miles, A. H. The poets and poetry of the nineteenth century:
Christina G. Rossetti to Katharine Tynan. Vol 9 1907.
Sackville, Lady Margaret. A book of verse by living women. 1911.
Squire, J. C. A book of women’s verse. 1921.
Teasdale, Sara. The answering voice: one hundred love lyrics by
women. New York 1926.
Abdy, G. B. A Victorian pot-pourri of verses, known, unknown and
forgotten. 1930.
Bax, C. and M. Stewart. The distaff muse: an anthology of poetry
written by women. 1949.
Stanford, A. The women poets in English: an anthology. New York
1972.
Bernikow, L. The world split open: four centuries of women poets in
England and America, 1552–1950. New York 1974, London 1979.
Kaplan, C. Salt and bitter and good: three centuries of English and
American women poets. New York and London [1975].
Bogan, M. The women troubadours. New York 1976.
Barnstone, A. and W. B. A book of women poets from antiquity to
now. New York 1978.
Cosman, C., J. Keefe and K. Weaver. The Penguin book of women
poets. 1978, Harmondsworth 1979.
Scott, D. Bread and roses: an anthology of nineteenth and twentieth
century poetry by women writers. 1982.
Kelly, A. A. Pillars of the house: an anthology of verse by Irish
women from 1690 to the present. Dublin 1987.
Dugaw, D. Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650–1850.
Cambridge 1989.
Pritchard, R. E. Englishwomen’s poetry, Elizabethan to Victorian.
Manchester 1990.
Kerrigan, C. An anthology of Scottish women poets. Edinburgh
1991. With Gaelic trns by M. Bateman.
Zundel, V. Faith in her words: six centuries of women’s poetry.
Oxford 1991.
Breen, J. Women Romantic poets 1785–1832. 1992, 1994 (new edn).
Breen, J. Victorian women poets 1830–1901: an anthology. 1994.
Hall, L. An anthology of poetry by women: tracing the tradition.
1994.
Reilly, C. Winged words: an anthology of Victorian women’s poetry
and verse. 1994.
Ashfield, A. Romantic women poets, 1770–1838: an anthology.
Manchester and New York 1995; 2nd edn vol 1 Manchester 1997,
vol 2 Manchester 1998.
Feldman, P. R. and T. M. Kelley (ed). Romantic women writers:
voices and countervoices. Hanover NH and London 1995.
Leighton, A. and M. Reynolds. Victorian women poets: an anthology.
Oxford and Cambridge MA 1995.
Armstrong, I. and J. Bristow. Nineteenth century women poets: an
Oxford anthology. Oxford 1996. With C. Sharrock.
Higgonet, M. British women poets of the nineteenth century. 1996.
Feldman, P. R. British women poets of the Romantic era. Baltimore
1997.
Gurr, E. and C. de Piro. 19th and 20th century women poets. Oxford
1997.
Wu, D. Romantic women poets. Oxford 1998.
e. reference works
This section lists bibliographies, encyclopaedias, dictionaries and guides concerned
exclusively or in significant proportion with poetry and/or poets of the
nineteenth century.
[Smibert, T.] Rhyming dictionary for the use of young poets, with an
essay on English versification and explanatory observations on
the selection and use of rhymes. [1856] (2nd edn).
Bellew, J. C. M. Poets’ corner: a manual for students in English
poetry: with biographical sketches of the authors. London and
New York 1868, 1884 (new edn).
Carpenter, J. E. A handbook of poetry, being a clear and easy guide
. . . to the art of making English verse . . . to which is added a new
poetical anthology, and a concise dictionary of proper rhymes,
etc. 1868.
O’Donoghue, D. J. The poets of Ireland: a biographical dictionary
with bibliographical particulars. 3 vols 1892–3; new enlarged and
rev edn 1901, 1912; rptd London and New York 1970.
Brewer, R. F. Orthometry: a treatise on the art of versification and
the technicalities of poetry . . . with a new and complete rhyming
dictionary. 1893.
Granger, E. An index to poetry and recitations, etc. Chicago 1904;
3rd edn rev and enlarged ed H. H. Bessey [1940], Suppl 1938–44
New York 1945; 4th edn rev and enlarged, indexing anthologies
pbd up to 31 Dec 1950, ed R. J. Dixon, New York 1957, as Granger’s
index; 10th edn rev as The Columbia index to poetry, indexing
anthologies to June 1993, ed E. P. Hazen, New York 1994.
Hodgkins, L. M. A guide to the study of nineteenth-century authors.
Boston 1904.
Dana, C. L. Poetry and the doctors: a catalogue of poetical works
written by physicians. 1916.
Woods, G. B. English poetry and prose of the romantic movement.
New York 1916 (with bibliography), 1929 (with supplementary
bibliography).
Recorder (pseud) [J. Warren Owen?]. A bibliography of modern
poetry, with notes on some contemporary poets. 1920.
Bernbaum, E. Guide through the romantic movement. New York
1930, 1949, 1954 (both rev and enlarged).
Templeman, W. D. et al. Victorian bibliography for 1932. MP 30 1933
(continued annually in MP until 1956); Bibliographies of studies
in Victorian literature 1932–44, ed Templeman, Urbana IL 1945
(collected); Bibliographies of studies in Victorian literature
1945–54, ed A. Wright, Urbana IL 1956 (collected).
Jones, H. M. et al. Syllabus and bibliography of Victorian literature.
5 pts Ann Arbor MI 1934–5.