Tag: 19th Century Women Poets Collection

(Digital Collections) The Unsurprisingly Consistent Vein of Sorrow in the Works of the Armstrong Browning Library’s Women Poets Collection

by Eric Ames on September 12, 2013 in Digital Collections • 0 Comments

You could be forgiven for assuming that a collection of 400 works written by 19th century poetesses would encompass a mostly positive worldview. It would even be safe to assume, for example, that the kinds of women who had the educational backgrounds, available leisure time and access to commercial (and private) printers would tend to fill the pages of their…

Christmas Poetry, from 19th Century Poetess Adelaide Procter

by Eric Ames on December 25, 2011 in Armstrong Browning Library • 0 Comments

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas from all of us at the Digitization Projects Group! If you’re looking for some inspiring readings for the day, check out the 19th Century Women Poets Collection. Drawn from the holdings of the Armstrong Browning Library, these works contain dozens of poems related to Christmas and its iconic imagery. Click here to read…