Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879: An Annotated Biobibliography

583 Pages·1999·28.23 MB·English

by  Catherine W. Reilly

MID-VICTORIAN
POETRY
1860-1879
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CATHERINE W. REILLY
MID-VICTORIAN
POETRY
1860-1879
AN ANNOTATED
BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
MANSELL
London and New York
First published 2000 by
Mansell Publishing Limited, A Cassell imprint
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R OBB
370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6550
© Catherine W. Reilly 2000
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any
form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers
or their appointed agents.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-7201-2318-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reilly, Catherine W.
Mid-Victorian poetry, 1860—1879: an annotated biobibliography/
Catherine W. Reilly.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7201-2318-6 (he)
1. English poetry—19th century—Bio-bibliography Dictionaries.
2. Poets, English-19th century-Biography Dictionaries. I. Title.
Z2014.P7R454 2000
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820.9'008'03-dc21
[B] 99-26552
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To the memory of my brother and sister-in-law
William Francis Reilly and Shirley Ann Reilly
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction ix
Arrangement of the Material xiv
Key to Library Locations xvii
Abbreviations xviii
Select Bibliography of Biographical Sources xx
THE BlOBIBLIOGRAPHY 1
Title Index 515
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am extremely grateful to those who have helped me, in various ways, with the
preparation of this book. My thanks are due to the following: the librarians and
staffs of all the libraries visited in the course of my research, especially the staffs of
the libraries where most of the work was carried out, i.e. the Department of
Printed Books, Bodleian Library, Oxford; The British Library, London;
Manchester Central Library; The Mitchell Library, Glasgow; and the
Department of Special Collections, University of California, Davis; to
Catherine Lee; Christine Lee; Lorna Fergusson; Dr Florence Boos of the
University of Iowa; La Societe Guernesiase; La Societe Jersiaise; and finally to
The British Academy for the award of a personal research grant, without which
the work could not have been completed.
INTRODUCTION
Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860-1879 is the second volume of what is to be a three-
volume biobibliography of Victorian poetry. The first volume, already published,
covers the years 1880 to 1899; the third and final volume will cover the years
1840 to 1859. The national libraries, university libraries, and older-established
public libraries contain thousands of volumes of poetry and verse, yet the majority
of the authors of these works are quite unknown as no bibliography of Victorian
poetry has existed until now.
This book identifies 2,605 authors of the United Kingdom (England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales); in addition 172 authors are identified only by pseudonym,
162 only by initials; a further 205 volumes could not be attributed to any
particular author and so are included here under title. Of the authors 639 were
women but there may be many more listed under pseudonym or initials. Included
are a small number of writers from abroad who had settled in the United
Kingdom and so were familiar with the Victorian way of life. Also included are
some writers born in the United Kingdom who emigrated or worked abroad for
long periods.
The term 'Victorian poetry' covers a vast amount of material so certain
specialist categories have had to be omitted to make this a viable study. These
categories are volumes consisting exclusively of: verse drama; dialect; hymns with
music; songs with music; native languages other than English, i.e. Gaelic, Irish
and Welsh; literal translations from foreign languages; pamphlets, defined as
having fewer than eight leaves, i.e. fifteen or sixteen pages; children's verse.
However, elements of all these categories do appear within the volumes listed.
The major Victorian poets, those whose work forms the accepted canon of
nineteenth-century British poetry, are well documented and intensively studied.
Their publications are already covered by existing bibliographies and so, to avoid
unnecessary listing, in each case I have given details of the most authoritative
bibliography available.
The research for this bibliography has been carried out in a variety of libraries.
The prime locations in which to seek Victorian poetry are the major national
libraries, known as 'copyright libraries', based at the British Library, London, the
Bodleian Library, Oxford, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of
Scotland in Edinburgh, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and
Trinity College, Dublin. The holdings of these libraries are large but not
comprehensive; they are entitled to claim a copy of every book published but are
not obliged to do so. As educational institutions they would have been unlikely to