“And his own soul, being one of the loveliest as well as loftiest that…” — Mathilde Blind

“And his own soul, being one of the loveliest as well as loftiest that ever passed across the stage of the world, transmuted the visible Universe to something after its own likeness.”

Suggesting that the artist transforms the visible world through the character of the self · Lecture, Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's (1886)

Mathilde Blind

About Mathilde Blind

21 March 1841–26 November 1896

In the pantheon of Victorian literature, where names like Tennyson, Browning, and Christina Rossetti shine brightest, the figure of Mathilde Blind occupies a curious position—both central and marginal, celebrated and forgotten. Born into revolution and raised in exile, Blind carved out a unique space in the literary…

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