Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and DesireEmma Donoghue With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships, and expressions of love. The collection is testimony to the rich tradition of female verse and the timelessness of love and creativity. |
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... Song 32 Georgiana Spencer , Duchess of Devonshire 32 To Lady Elizabeth Foster 32 Eliza Cobbe , Lady Tuite 33 To a Friend , Fearful of being Forgotten in Absence 33 Eliza Robertson 34 from A Poetical Epistle to an Absent Friend 34 ...
... Song 32 Georgiana Spencer , Duchess of Devonshire 32 To Lady Elizabeth Foster 32 Eliza Cobbe , Lady Tuite 33 To a Friend , Fearful of being Forgotten in Absence 33 Eliza Robertson 34 from A Poetical Epistle to an Absent Friend 34 ...
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... 87 Edith Nesbit 89 To Vera , Who Asked a Song 89 Katharine Lee Bates 90 82 ' Even as this globe shall gleam and disappear ' 90 Mary Coleridge 90 The Witch 90 Mistaken 91 Marriage 92 Not Yet 92 Gone 93 Regina 93 ' O let me be in xiv ...
... 87 Edith Nesbit 89 To Vera , Who Asked a Song 89 Katharine Lee Bates 90 82 ' Even as this globe shall gleam and disappear ' 90 Mary Coleridge 90 The Witch 90 Mistaken 91 Marriage 92 Not Yet 92 Gone 93 Regina 93 ' O let me be in xiv ...
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... Song 119 119 IIS H.D. ( Hilda Doolittle ) 119 At Baia 119 Fragment Thirty - Six 120 Elizabeth Daryush 123 Forbidden Love 123 Katherine Mansfield 124 Friendship 124 Dorothy Wellesley , Duchess of Wellington 125 Maiden Castle 125 xvi ...
... Song 119 119 IIS H.D. ( Hilda Doolittle ) 119 At Baia 119 Fragment Thirty - Six 120 Elizabeth Daryush 123 Forbidden Love 123 Katherine Mansfield 124 Friendship 124 Dorothy Wellesley , Duchess of Wellington 125 Maiden Castle 125 xvi ...
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... Song / for Sanna 154 Michèle Roberts 156 Magnificat 156 Mary Dorcey 157 Night 157 Brenda Brooks 158 Anything 158 Dionne Brand 160 from hard against the soul ( X ) 160 Carol Ann Duffy 161 Warming Her Pearls 161 Jackie Kay 162 Pounding ...
... Song / for Sanna 154 Michèle Roberts 156 Magnificat 156 Mary Dorcey 157 Night 157 Brenda Brooks 158 Anything 158 Dionne Brand 160 from hard against the soul ( X ) 160 Carol Ann Duffy 161 Warming Her Pearls 161 Jackie Kay 162 Pounding ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | xxi |
Ursula Bethell | xl |
Aphra Behn | 4 |
Anne Killigrew II | 11 |
Elizabeth Thomas | 17 |
Charlotte Lennox | 25 |
Elizabeth Hands | 28 |
Eliza Robertson | 34 |
Emily Hickey | 79 |
Sophie Jewett | 96 |
Gertrude Stein | 112 |
Marjorie Pickthall | 118 |
Katherine Mansfield | 124 |
Dorothy Wellesley Duchess of Wellington | 125 |
Ruth Pitter | 132 |
Dorothy Livesay | 138 |
Mary Matilda Betham | 41 |
Mary Russell Mitford | 44 |
Frances Kemble | 50 |
Emily Brontë | 56 |
Bessie Rayner Parkes | 63 |
Helen Hunt Jackson | 70 |
Rosa Mulholland Lady Gilbert | 77 |
Daphne Marlatt | 151 |
Mary Dorcey | 157 |
Ali Smith | 163 |
Biographical Notes | 165 |
Permissions | 195 |
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References to this book
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin Limited preview - 1999 |