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MID-VICTORIAN POETRY 1860-1879 This page intentionally left blank 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 [PR581] 820.9'008'03-dc21 [B] 99-26552 CIP Typeset by BookEns Ltd, Royston, Hertfordshire Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire To the memory of my brother and sister-in-law William Francis Reilly and Shirley Ann Reilly This page intentionally left blank 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
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