Speranza : poems / by Jane Wilde ; selected and introduced by Eihear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Lady, 1821-1896, author.

Contributor:

Walshe, Eibhear, writer of introduction.

Fitzsimons, Eleanor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This is the first contemporary edition of the poetry of Jane Wilde, née Elgee, who also wrote as Speranza. Speranza was, in her time, renowned worldwide, with essays, poetry and translated work published in Ireland, England, America and beyond. She was a key figure in the nationalist Young Ireland movement of the 1840s, and her poetry records the hardship experienced by the Irish people - famine and migration in particular. She was also an early advocate for women’s rights, who campaigned for the admission of women to higher education. This edition, which contains several previously unpublished poems, will make the poetry of this emblematic figure in nineteenth-century Irish writing accessible to a contemporary audience for the first time."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Speranza : A Poetic Life / Eleanor Fitzsimons

Reading the Poems of Jane Wilde / Eibhear Walshe

Poems by Speranza

Appendix : Publication History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Walshe, Eibhear. Speranza.

ISBN:

9781836240372

1836240376

OCLC:

1456982371

Publisher Number:

90103710660

CIPO000183205