How Alexander Dyce assembled specimens of British poetesses: a key moment in the transmission of early modern women's writing

Title: How Alexander Dyce assembled specimens of British poetesses: a key moment in the transmission of early modern women's writing
Creator: Salzman, Paul
Relation: Women's Writing Vol. 26, Issue 1, p. 88-105
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2019.1534636
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: In 1825 Alexander Dyce published a remarkable anthology of poetry by women writers from Juliana Berners to L. E. Landon. The forty or so writers in the collection who wrote prior to the mid eighteenth century form an impressively varied collection. In this essay I examine the sources Dyce used and the reasoning behind the anthology as a whole. Dyce's volume not only exemplifies the remarkably catholic taste of a nineteenth century editor, but it also serves as a paradigm for how the transmission of texts by early modern women continued into the nineteenth century, and intersected with something of a golden age of the editing of Renaissance literature in general. I will consider how significant this selection of women's poetry was for Dyce's other editorial activities, and how his volume related to other nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century editorial projects.
Subject: poetry; women writers; Renaissance literature; nineteenth-century
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1467032
Identifier: uon:47722
Identifier: ISSN:0969-9082
Language: eng
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