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Early Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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wife, The young nurse girl, The bad manager, Sixty years ago.
The children of summerbrook. 1859, [1861] 3rd edn. Contains verses
also sold separately in 3 vols as Village children at home; Village
children at school; The happy school fellows.
The lady’s dilemma. [1859.] Poem.
The lost child: a ballad of English life. [1865] (3rd edn), [1866?] (6th
edn). Rptd with The romance of Mallee Scrub, New York 1866.
Mother’s last words: a ballad for boys. 1860, [1861] (2nd edn), [1865],
[1870]. At least 24 edns.
Isabel Gray: or, the mistress didn’t know. 1861, [1870]. Poem.
Our father’s care: a ballad. [1861], [1861] (3rd edn), [1870] (44th edn).
Stories in verse for the street and lane: being the second series of
‘Homely ballads for the working man’s fireside’. 1861. Contains
ballads sold individually: The chaffinch’s nest, Widow Haye; or,
Gossiping neighbours, Miriam, The boy and the rooks, The lady’s
dilemma, The drunkards, A sad story, The London attic (another
story), The green hill side, The traveller and the farmer, The little
schismatics; or, Irreligion, Marriage as it may be, The bad
servant, A ghost story, Crazed, The two noblemen.
Patience Hart’s first experience in service. 1862 (2nd edn); nd (5th
edn). Rev edn pbd posthumously. Novel.
An appeal to Englishwomen. [1863.] Anti-slavery polemic.
Homely ballads and stories in verse. (In 18 nos.) [1864], [1870].
Contains verses in Homely ballads for the working man’s
fireside, Stories in verse for street and lane, Isabel Gray, and The
lady’s dilemma.
The little forester and his friends. A ballad of the olden time. [1866.]
Re-telling in verse of Mrs Sherwood’s The little woodman and his
dog Caesar.
The rose of Cheriton. A ballad. [1867?], [1870] (2nd edn, an abridgement),
reissued [1870].
Poor Betsy Rayner: or The power of kindness. nd. Ballad.
Ballads for children. [1868.] Includes Mother’s last words and Our
father’s care and The children of Summerbrook.
Church ballads. [1868.]
Church ballads. 2nd series: On the festivals. [1869.]
Isabel Gray: or the mistress didn’t know, and Katie, the young nurse
girl. [1870.]
Pictures and ballads of London life. [1870.]
Davie Blake the sailor! 1875 (2nd edn). Includes prose piece The
sailor on shore.
Mother’s last words and other ballads. [1876.]
The martyr’s tree. [1880.] Verse.
A vision of the night. [1882.] Verse.
The suffering poor. [1883.] Verse.
Sixpenny charity. [1884?] Prose.
Thy poor brother: letters to a friend on helping the poor. [1886] (3rd
edn).
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Mrs Bayly. The life and letters of Mrs Sewell. 1889. (Includes 76-page
‘autobiography’ by Sewell.)
The home life and letters of Mrs Ellis, by her nieces. 1893. (Mrs
Sewell and Mrs Ellis were sisters-in-law.)
See also the memoir by E. B. Bayly in Mrs. Sewell’s poems and ballads,
under collections, above. [ht-m and ag]
Mary Sewell of Chertsey, Mrs George fl. 1803–9
Poems. Chertsey, London, Bath, Canterbury and Uxbridge 1803;
Egham and Chertsey, London, Bath, Canterbury and Uxbridge
1803.
Poems. 2 vols Egham and Chertsey, London, Canterbury, Bath and
Uxbridge 1805 (vol 1 being the 2nd edn of Poems 1803).
Trafalgar: a poem to the memory of Lord Nelson . . . Chertsey and
London 1806.
Poems and essays. Vol 3 (a sequel to Poems 1805) Chertsey, London,
Canterbury, Bath, Uxbridge and Egham 1809.
Richard Scrafton Sharpe fl. 1799–1852
The Margate new guide . . .. 1799. Anon.
Theodore, or the gamester’s progress: a poetic tale. 1799, 1802, 1824.
Anon.
Parodies on Gay, to which is added The battle of the busts . . .. [1800?]
Anon.
Matilda, or the Welch cottage: a poetic tale. 1801. Anon.
Old friends in a new dress, or familiar fables in verse . . .. 1807, 1809,
1820, 1826, 1837. Anon (authorship uncertain).
Mirth for midsummer . . .: a collection of parlour poetry . . .. 1823,
1825 (as Smiles for all seasons, or mirth for midsummer). Anon.
Cottage poetry. 1829. Anon.
The Westons, or scenes in a village, consisting of cottage prose and
cottage poetry. [1852] (2nd edn).
The children’s poem, Dame Wiggins of Lee, is traditionally ascribed to
Sharpe.
L. O. Shaw fl. 1814–36
Poems and dramatic pieces. 2 vols Burnley 1814–15.
The duel: a satirical poem with other poems. Blackburn 1815;
Haslingdon, London and Manchester [1836] (as The duel, The
battle of Waterloo and other poems).
The reformers: a satirical poem. Burnley 1817.
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822
Mss of most of Shelley’s verse and prose of 1817–22 have survived and are scattered
in public and private collections throughout the UK and America. The
principal collections are located in: (1) Bodleian: 22 notebooks and boxes,
including substantial parts in Shelley’s or Mary Shelley’s hand of Laon and
Cythna, Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus
unbound, Peter Bell III, Swellfoot, Sensitive plant, Epipsychidion,
Witch of Atlas, Adonais, Hellas, Charles I, Triumph of life, trns from
Euripides, Goethe and Calderón, Speculations on morals and metaphysics,
Coliseum, On manners of the antients, Essay on
Christianity, Defence of poetry. Most of this material is now pbd in facs,
with transcripts, notes and commentary, as the Garland series Bodleian
Shelley mss. Individual items in this series, pbd from 1986 (23 in all when
complete), are listed below under §1. Microfilms of the Bodleian collection are
at Duke Univ. (2) Huntington: 3 notebooks including drafts of Mask of
anarchy, Vision of the sea, Cyprian, Una favola: 3 poems in Mary
Shelley’s hand, and Hellas in E. Williams’s hand. For facs with transcripts,
notes and commentary, see the Garland series Mss of the younger romantics:
Shelley, vols 3, 4 and 6 under §1, below. (3) Houghton Lib, Harvard
Univ: a fair-copy notebook, and 7 poems. For facs with transcripts, notes and
commentary, see Mss of the younger romantics: Shelley, vol 5, under §1,
below. (4) Pforzheimer Lib, now in the NYPL: the Esdaile notebook of early
poems, some 20 other poems and fragments including the press copy of
Athanase, and A philosophical view of reform. The Esdaile notebook is
pbd in facs with transcript, notes and commentary as Mss of the younger
romantics: Shelley, vol i, listed under §1, below. (5) BL: Masque of
anarchy (Wise ms), the ‘Scrope Davies Notebook’ (on long-term loan from
Barclay’s Bank; contains fair copies of Hymn to intellectual beauty,
Mont Blanc, and 2 otherwise unknown sonnets), and 12 minor poems and
fragments; transcripts at Duke Univ. (6) Pierpont Morgan Lib: Julian and
Maddalo, and 4 other poems. (7) Lib of Congress: Mask of anarchy (Hunt
ms) and minor prose. (8) Eton College Lib: 6 poems and fragments.
The letters are also widely scattered. Collections of more than 20 letters are
located in the Bodleian, Pforzheimer Lib, BL and Huntington. The 8th Baron
Abinger’s large collection of material relating to Shelley and his circle is now
on long-term loan to the Bodleian. Microfilms of this collection (as made in