The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor

Heather Braun; Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

doi:10.5771/9781683931478

Summary

The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Selected Poetry and Prose, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, seeks to reclaim Coleridge’s reputation as a novelist, poet, critic, and educator by featuring familiar works alongside unpublished or out-of-print works. This collection includes a substantial introduction to Coleridge, analyzing her life and legacy; the whole of Coleridge’s final published novel; and a selection of important poems, short stories, essays, and letters. This discussion of her career invites the reader to consider her poetry and other writing alongside the novel that early critics called her most reflective and mature. In restoring the integrity of Coleridge’s literary canon, this volume offers new ways of understanding the complexities of an innovative Victorian writer who deserves to be better known and featured more prominently in anthologies and college courses. This collection is intended to introduce scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and the general reading public to Coleridge’s specific and considerable contributions to late-Victorian literature.

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Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-68393-146-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-68393-147-8
Publisher: University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 24
The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor No access Pages 25 - 128
1. A Clever Woman No access
2. The Other Side of a Mirror No access
3. The Witch No access
4. We Never Said Farewell No access
5. Doubt No access
6. Shadow No access
7. The Deserted House No access
8. To Memory No access
9. Two Songs No access
10. Horror No access
11. Mortal Combat No access
12. Marriage No access
13. Unwelcome No access
14. Master and Guest No access
15. Regina No access
16. Self-Question No access
17. True to Myself am I, and False to All No access
18. Go No access
19. Gone No access
20. Lines* No access
21. Grief and Death* No access
22. To One Who Was Nursing a Blind Father No access
23. To an Old Friend* No access
24. To Time the Comforter* No access
1. “Words, Words, Words!” No access
2. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble No access
3. The Drawing-Room No access
4. Gifts No access
5. The Making of Heroines[From The Reflector, March 1888] No access
6. Her Grace, the Duchess [From The Theatre, September 1884] No access
7. Mrs. Gaskell [From the Times Literary Supplement, 14 September 1906] No access
8. Queen Elizabeth [A lecture given to some working-girls] No access
9. The Friendly Foe [From The Cornhill, March 1898] No access
Selected Passages from Letters and Diaries No access Pages 224 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 236
About the Editor No access Pages 237 - 238