Caroline Giffard Phillipson (1823 – 1893) was a British poet and novelist.
Caroline Phillipson | |
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| Born | 1823  Montgomeryshire |
| Died | 1893 (aged 69–70) Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Spouse(s) | John Phillipson |
Caroline Giffard[note 1] Lethbridge was born on 1823 in Montgomeryshire. She was the eldest of eighteen children of Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge, 3rd baronet. Her mother was Lethbridge's first wife, Harriet Mytton. In 1849, Caroline Lethbridge married John Tharp Burton Phillipson.[1]
Caroline Phillipson wrote four books of poetry.[1] The first, Lonely Hours (1856), was labeled "sentimental doggerel" in a negative review by novelist George Eliot in the Westminster Review.[2] An enraged Phillipson published a pamphlet called A Song in Prose to the Westminster Owl. Though the anonymous review was by Eliot, Phillipson assumed it had been written by her partner George Henry Lewes and the pamphlet was a lengthy denunciation of Lewes.[3] A later volume, Songs on Italy (1862), was full of fulsome praise of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi. A 20th century critic wrote that Phillipson "maltreated the Muses most frightfully."[4] Correspondence between Garibaldi and Phillipson is owned by the Museo Civico di Sanremo.[5]
Phillipson wrote one work of fiction, Ethel Beranger (1858), which The Athenaeum called "a very silly novel."[1]
Caroline Phillipson died in 1893 in Italy.[1]
Bibliography
edit- Lonely Hours, 1856.
- A Song in Prose to the Westminster Owl, on the Criticism of the 'Westminster Review' of July, 1856, on 'Lonely Hours, Poems by Caroline Giffard Phillipson. London: Moxon, 1856.[6]
- Eva, a Romance in Rhyme, and other Poems. London : Moxon, 1857.[7]
- Ethel Beranger: A Novel. 2 vol. London: T. C. Newby, 1858.[1]
- Songs on Italy, and Other Poems London: Robert Hardwicke, 1862[8]
- Mental Flights: A Volume of Verse, Political and Sentimental London: Chapman & Hall, 1871.[8]
Notes
edit- ^ Sources sometimes spell her name "Gifford", but it is spelled "Giffard" on the title pages of her books.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Author: Caroline Gifford Phillipson". At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
- ^ george newlin (2006). the complete nonfiction the taxonomy and the topicon. M. E. Sharpe.
- ^ Ashton, Rosemary (2000). G.H. Lewes : an unconventional Victorian. London: Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-6689-3.
- ^ Harry W. Rudman (1966). Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press.
- ^ ""Io ricordai Sanremo con tanto amore quanto la mia città natia": il lungo legame di Garibaldi con la Riviera". La Stampa (in Italian). 2022-10-20. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ The Westminster Review. J. Chapman. 1857.
- ^ The Dublin review. Kelly - University of Toronto. London : W. Spooner. 1836–1969.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b Reilly, Catherine W. (2000). Mid-Victorian poetry, 1860-1879 : an annotated biobibliography. London [England] ; New York: Mansell. ISBN 978-0-7201-2318-0.
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