Publisher Description
For much of history, women have been seen rather than heard. In The Female Poet, Volume 2, poets of great depth and feeling express themselves on a range of topics and in ways that perhaps only a woman can. Included here are works by Emily Bronte, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, and many others.
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About the Authors
Emily Brontë (1818–1848),
sister of Anne and Charlotte, published only one novel in her career, Wuthering Heights. Though she died just one year after its publication and
never knew of its success, the story of doomed love and revenge went on to earn its
place among the masterpieces of English literature.
Anne
Finch (née Kingsmill), Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), was
an English poet, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton Court
and his wife, Anne Haslewood. As
a poet, Finch attained a modest amount of notoriety during her lifetime, however,
her large body of work, written during the Augustan period (approximately
1660–1760), would earn greater attention after her death. While Finch also
authored fables and plays, today she is best known for her poetry: lyric
poetry, odes, love poetry and prose poetry. Later literary critics recognized
the diversity of her poetic output as well as its personal and intimate style.
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.