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…
“Beside curiosity, my friends will in these Letters see at least for some time where the real Lady Craven has been, and where she is to be found.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 at Thornton, near Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the third surviving child of Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell Brontë. She died on 31 March 1855, not yet thirty-nine years old, after creating a body of work that transformed the English novel. Though chiefly celebrated as a novelist, she began as a poet, wrote poetry throughout her life, and brought a poet’s inten…
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
