SUSAN BROWNMaking of a Canon, 1730-18x0, ed. Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), 84, 85.
35 See Marjorie Stone, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1995), 137-59-
36 Christina Rossetti, "Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets," in The Complete
Poems of Christina Rossetti, ed. R.W. Crump, 3 vols. (Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State University, 1979-90), II, 86.
37 See Susan Conley, "'Poet's Right': Christina Rossetti as Anti-Muse and the
Legacy of the 'Poetess.'" Victorian Poetry 32 (1994), 365-86.
38 Oscar Wilde, "English Poetesses," in The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of
Oscar Wilde, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York: Random House, 1969), 102.
This essay originally appeared in Queen, 8 December 1888.
39 Margaret Reynolds, "'I lived for art, I lived for love': The Woman Poet Sings
Sappho's Last Song," in Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader, ed. Angela
Leighton (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), 299.
40 Mary Catherine Hume, "Sappho," Intellectual Repository, 1 May 1862,
222-26; Catherine Amy Dawson, Sappho (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1889).
41 Alexander Macmillan, "To Dante Gabriel Rossetti," 28 October 1861, in The
Rossetti-Macmillan Letters, ed. Lona Mosk Packer (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1963), 6.
42 Augusta Webster, Portraits (London: Macmillan, 1870), 37. This poem is
reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, eds. Isobel Armstrong and
Joseph Bristow with Cath Sharrock (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 602-30;
and in Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology, eds. Angela Leighton and
Margaret Reynolds (Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1995), 433-4 8
43 Emma, Lady Wood, Leaves from the Poets' Laurels, Moxon's Miniature Poets
(London: E. Moxon, Son, 1869), xi.
44 Eris S. Robertson English Poetesses: A Series of Critical Biographies, with
Illustrative Extracts (London: Cassell, 1883), xv, xiv.
45 Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, ed., Women Poets of the Victorian Era (London:
Walter Scott, 1890), xxix, xxx. Alfred H. Miles also gave women substantial
attention in his monumental Poets and Poetry of the Century, 10 vols. (London:
Hutchinson, 1892-97).
46 "Preface," Long Ago (London: George Bell, 1889), iii.
47 Glennis Stephenson, Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1995), 172.
48 Anne K. Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (New York: Routledge, 1993), 120,
142.
49 Virginia Blain, "'Thou with Earth's Music Answerest to the Sky': Felicia
Hemans, Mary Ann Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood," Women's
Writing 2 (1995), 259; and "Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton,
and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess," Victorian Poetry 33 (1995), 46.
50 See Curran, "The I Altered," in Romanticism and Feminism, ed. Anne K. Mellor
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988), 185-207.
51 Isobel Armstrong and Joseph Bristow, "Introduction," in Nineteenth-Century
Women Poets, xxxvi.
52 Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins, "Lyrical Studies," Victorian Literature and
Culture 27 (1999), 527, 528, 531.