‘Afford[ing] me a Place’: Recovering Women Poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1827–1835
‘Afford[ing] me a Place’: Recovering Women Poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1827–1835
Drawing upon digital bibliographic resources and databases including The Periodical Poetry Index, Lindsy Lawrence presents a compelling corrective to the received opinion that women poets rarely featured in the homosocial space of Blackwood’s during the ‘Romantic Victorian’ period. In addition to demonstrating that multiple women poets contributed a considerable volume of verse to Blackwood’s, many of which were signed, Lawrence also shows that these contributors were canny professionals. Analysis of the correspondence between the poets and their editor, William Blackwood, sheds light on their business acumen, as well as their sharp understanding of the machinations of the literary marketplace. As Lawrence explains, for these poets, negotiating ‘a space within the pages of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine granted them the kind of cultural access important to the furthering of their work and careers’ (p.400).
Keywords: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, poetry, women poets, William Blackwood, The Periodical Poetry Index
Edinburgh Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
