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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 169 8 200 x 127 mm 56 pages |
CAROLINE NORTON A Voice from the Factories 1836 Caroline Norton was one of the most successful literary women of her day, a poet whose work has been strangely neglected. An unhappy marriage led to separation from her children, her anguish flowing into this anonymously-published testament to the abuse of child labour. Poised between the portrayal in The Excursion of the factory child and the more famous protests of the Victorian novel, Norton's poem has brevity, political relevance, and force. £21 $35 She has very much of that intense personal passion by which Byron’s poetry is distinguished from the larger grasp and deeper communion with man and nature of Wordsworth. She has also Byron’s beautiful intervals of tenderness. |
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