Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 298

 

Author

 Balmanno, Mary

Title

Poems By Mrs. Balmanno

Imprint

London: January, 1830.

Call number

WPRP 298

Physical description

19, [1] p. front. 25 cm

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 16.

Notes

 Engraved frontispiece of "May Talbot" by Edwards after Cooper, dated 1829. First and only edition of the author's only book of poems, apparently privately printed. Illustrated endpiece. One section of the book appears to be a different typeset and paper, "Rose Malcolm" and "Undine." Pagination is irregular.

Epigraph

 None.

Contents

May Talbot; or Goderich Castle.

Rose Malcolm.

1

Undine. Versification of part of De La Motte Foque's Romance, in illustration of a Painting by M. Retzsch, in the Collection of His Serene Highness Prince Esterhazy.

Hadden Hall.

13

"They slumber low and in the dust;"

14

A Dream.

15

To Miss Emma Roberts, Authoress of the History of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, for her Album, on her Departure for India.

16

Arab Song.

18

To The Memory Of A Friend.

19