Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems (Paperback)

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Works Cited
Augusta Webster: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

WORKS

From Dramatic Studies (1866)

• Jeanne D’Arc
  Sister Annunciata—
1. An Anniversary
2. Abbess Ursula’s Lecture
• The Snow Waste
  With the Dead
  By the Looking-Glass

From A Woman Sold and Other Poems (1867)

• A Woman Sold—
1. Eleanor Vaughan
2. Lady Boycott

• From Anno Domini 33
• Pilate

• The Old Year Out and the New Year In
  Too Faithful
  To One of Many
  To and Fro

From Portraits (first edition 1870; enlarged edition, 1893):

• Medea in Athens
  Circe
  The Happiest Girl in the World
  A Castaway
  Faded
  A Soul in Prison
  Tired
  Coming Home
  In an Almshouse
  A Preacher
  A Painter
  An Inventor
  A Dilettante

Yu-Pe-Ya’s Lute. A Chinese Tale in English Verse (1874)

From A Book of Rhyme (1881):

• Poulain the Prisoner
  Not Love
  English Rispetti

Mother and Daughter. An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence (1895)

Appendix A: A Selection of Essays from A Housewife’s Opinions (1879):

• A Transcript and a Transcription
  Poets and Personal Pronouns
  University Degrees for Women
  Protection for the Working Woman
  Husband-Hunting and Match-Making
  The Dearth of Husbands
  An Irrepressible Army
  Parliamentary Franchise for Women
  Ratepayers

Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews

Review of Dramatic Studies

• from the Reader (June 2, 1866)
  from the Nonconformist (June 27, 1866)
  from the Athenaeum (August 11, 1866)
  from the Westminster Review (October 1866)
  from the Contemporary Review (December, 1866)

Review of A Woman Sold from the Saturday Review (February 9, 1867)

Review of Portraits from the Westminster Review (April 1, 1870)

• from the Nonconformist (May 11, 1870)
  from the Examiner and London Review (May 21, 1870)

Review of Portraits (1893 edition) and Selections from the Verse of Augusta Webster from the Athenaeum (August 26, 1893)