Author

Hitchener, Elizabeth. (1782-1822).

Title

Enigmas, historical and geographical, by a clergyman's daughter.

Imprint

London : Darton and Harvey, 1834.

Physical description

[4],91p. 8. Neat ex. lib. Original cloth, spine repaired.

Call number

WPRP 90.

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 160.

Notes

Elizabeth Hitchener was a schoolmistress from Hurstpierpoint who enjoyed a close romantic and intellectual relationship with Shelley. She assisted him in disposing of copies of a ballad sheet, The Devil's Walk, by entrusting it in fire balloons, green bottles, and ingeniously constructed boat-boxes to the mercy of the wind and waves. After repeated invitations she gave up her school and went to live with the Shelleys at Lyndmouth, a step which proved disastrous for her relationship with the poet. Her letters to Shelley were first published in a private edition in 1890 and reissued in 1908.

Citation:

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 160.

Notes

Includes Dedication.

Epigraph

none

Online copies

CU Digital Library

Contents

No Contents page. Includes: