emma_in_dream: (Jeremiah)
I've been reading a biography of Christina Rossetti and the names of her predecessors, contemporaries, rivals and successors come up. It's fascinating because I know so few of them.

I know Elizabeth Barrett Browning, of course. And I had heard of LEL. Jean Ingelow's name rang a bell and when I checked she has one poem in both the *Oxford Book of English Verse* and Palgrave's *Treasury*. (Not terribly impressive, with a nineteenth-century weakness for dialect).

I had never heard of Felicia Hemens, Adelaide Proctor, Dora Greenwell, Caroline Norton or Isa Craig.

I am reminded of Joanna Russ' *How to Suppress Women's Writing* when she says that no one ever writes just one work, in isolation. And that it is tragic that we just get a few women anthologised over and over again (EBB, and Rossetti spring to mind), ignoring the tradition they sprang from.

I'm going to try to find some of their poetry online.

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