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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 |
Early life
editCaroline Giffard[note 1] Lethbridge was born on 1823 in Montgomeryshire, Wales. She was the eldest of eighteen children of Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge, 3rd Baronet. Her mother was Lethbridge's first wife, Harriet Mytton.[1] In 1849, Caroline Lethbridge married John Tharp Burton Phillipson, with the wedding taking place in Paris, France.[2]
Career
editCaroline Phillipson wrote four books of poetry.[2] The first, Lonely Hours (1856), was labelled "sentimental doggerel" in a negative review by novelist George Eliot in the Westminster Review.[3] 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.[4]
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."[5] Correspondence between Garibaldi and Phillipson is owned by the Museo Civico di Sanremo.[6]
Phillipson wrote one work of fiction, Ethel Beranger (1858), which The Athenaeum called "a very silly novel."[2]
Death
editBibliography
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.[7]
- Eva, a Romance in Rhyme, and other Poems. London: Moxon, 1857.[8]
- Ethel Beranger: A Novel. 2 vol. London: T. C. Newby, 1858.[2]
- Songs on Italy, and Other Poems, London: Robert Hardwicke, 1862[9]
- Mental Flights: A Volume of Verse, Political and Sentimental, London: Chapman & Hall, 1871.[9]
Notes
edit- ^ Sources sometimes spell her name "Gifford", but it is spelled "Giffard" on the title pages of her books.
References
edit- ^ Burke, Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 1092.
- ^ a b c d e Bassett, Troy J. "Author: Caroline Gifford Phillipson". At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Newlin, George (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). 20 October 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ 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.