Ebenezer Elliott was born on 17 March 1781 at Masbrough, near Rotherham, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and died on 1 December 1849 at Great Houghton, near Barnsley. He became known in his own lifetime as the “Corn Law Rhymer,” a title at once admiring, limiting, and revealing. It identified him with the campaign against the laws that kept imported grain expensive and bread beyond the reach of many poor families, b…
“I claim to be a pioneer of the greatest, the most beneficial, the only crimeless Revolution, which man has yet seen. I also claim to be the poet of that Revolution—the Bard of Free-trade.”
Neighbourhood:
Nature Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Anger, Sorrow, Fear
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
