Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-Language Poetry.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-Language Poetry. By CATHERINE BRENNAN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. viii+237 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1764-2.

The seven poets assessed by Catherine Brennan in Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears were selected because 'their experiences exemplify a spectrum of diverse species of Welshness' (p. 4). Her chosen writers are Jane Cave, Ann Julia Hatton, Felicia Hemans, Maria James, Sarah Williams, Emily Jane Pfeiffer, and Anna Walter Thomas, and their dates span the period from c. 1754 to 1920. This was,...

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