The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets

Dennis Low''s re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey, together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, nurtured the talents of many exceptional women writers. While examining the lives and works of Caroline Bowles, Maria Gowen Brooks, Sara Coleridge, and Maria Jane Jewsbury, Low also contributes to our understanding of the literary and publishing environment of Britain in the 1820s and 1830s.