Elizabeth Craven, later Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach, was born Elizabeth Berkeley on 17 December 1750, probably at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, and died in Naples on 13 January 1828. She lived with unusual visibility across the later eighteenth century and the opening decades of the nineteenth: aristocrat, wife and mother, theatrical author, poet, travel writer, correspondent, salon hostess, political obse…
“The greatest part of the public has my permission to doze over the following sheets, as I expose them to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
Francis James Child, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 1 February 1825 and dead in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 11 September 1896, became one of the most consequential preservers of traditional verse in the English-speaking world. He was not a collector in the modern fieldworker’s sense: he did not chiefly travel from village to village with a notebook, recording singers’ performances and melodies as later folklorist…
Neighbourhood:
Folk & Ballad Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
