Publisher Description
For much of history, women have been seen rather than heard. In this collection, poets of great depth and feeling express themselves on a range of topics and in ways that perhaps only a woman can. Here in The Female Poet, Volume 1 we bring you the works from Eliza Acton, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Brontë, and many others.
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About the Authors
Elizabeth “Eliza” Acton (1799–1859) was an English poet
and cook who produced one of the country’s first cookbooks aimed at the
domestic reader rather than the professional cook or chef, Modern Cookery for
Private Families.
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) grew up in the isolated parsonage at Haworth, Yorkshire, where her father was curate. She and her sisters Emily and Anne thrived in fantasy worlds that drew on their voracious reading of Shakespeare, romantic, and gothic fiction. Charlotte was employed as a teacher and a governess before she began writing with her sisters. The Professor, her first novel, was rejected for publication until 1857, although Jane Eyre, published in 1847 under a pseudonym, achieved great success.
About Ghizela Rowe
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.