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Individual Item Contents: WPRP 65

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Author

Richardson, Charlotte Caroline (nee Smith, 1775-1850).

Title

Poems written on different occasions, to which is prefixed some account of the author, together with the reasons which have led to their publication, by the editor, Catharine Cappe.

Imprint

Printed by subscription for the benefit of the author.

York : Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, High-Ousegate. 1806.

Physical description

xxiv,9-129,[3]p. Advt. leaf. With a list of subscribers. Rebound in grey boards.

Call number

WPRP 65.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 301; Cty,InU,CU only in NUC.

Bio

Dr. Aiken, Robert Bloomfield, Mrs. Barbauld, and Miss M. Byron were among those who subscribed. Charlotte Richardson, born at York and trained for domestic service. She remained a servant until 1802 when she married a shoemaker. Two years later he died of consumption and she was left destitute with a young child to care for. She opened a school but was soon forced to give it up. Her poems were published by subscription with the help of Mrs. Newcome Cappe.

Notes

Includes Preface, List of Subscribers, and Advertisement. Dr. Aiken, Robert Bloomfield, Mrs. Barbauld, and Miss M. Byron were among those who subscribed.

Epigraph

none

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Contents

ELEGY on the Death of a tender Mother	9
The Orphan’s Prayer	12
Epitaph	14
Prayer for Safety and Protection	15
On Recovery of Sudden Illness	20
Address to Religion	22
On the Consolation to be derived from Religion	24
The Inquiry	27
Ode addressed to the Grey Coat School	31
Paraphrase of Matt. xi. 28	35
Written under great Doubt and Anxiety of Mind, 1801	38
Praise for the Blessings of the Gospel	40
A Valentine, addressed by the Author to A.B.	42
A Valentine to R.R. written extempore	44
To my Acquaintance on her Marriage--accompanied by a small Present	46
Elegy on the Death of Mrs. T. Withers, April, 1802	48
Elegy on the Death of the late Dr. Robert Cappe	52
Invitation to the Sacrament	55
On my Birth-day, March 5, 1803.	59
Addressed during my own severe Illness, to the kindest of Husbands	61
When threatened with an Invasion in the Summer of 1803	63
Paraphrase written in my dear Husband’s last Illness	65
After the Death of my dear Husband, 1804	68
To my Infant Asleep	72
To my dearest Friend M.S. -------, on her Birth-day	75
He Sleeps, 1805	78
Sonnet addressed to Mr. M--------r, June, 1805	82
To Mrs. P-----, North-street	87
The Widow	90
On the Anniversary of our Marriage, Oct. 31, 1805	95
On being slighted by some who had professed lasting Friendship	97
Ode on visiting the Retreat, near York	101
Thanksgiving for the Recovery of my Sick Infant	104
Sonnet to Mr. M-------r.	107
On meeting accidentally with some Drawings coloured by my dear Brother	108
On the Death of Admiral Nelson	109
Subscriber’s Names	113

Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 65

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 65