‘Beyond the Regions of Ordinary ‘Lady’ Verse’: Two Uncollected Poems by Louisa Anne Meredith

Abstract

Includes the texts of two poems by Meredith, signed ‘Louisa Anne Twamley’: ‘Impromptu Sonnets’ and ‘Epitaph on a Child’, both published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine in the 1830s. Judith Johnston writes: ‘While these poems cannot be considered as constituting a part of Meredith’s Australian corpus, and are of minor literary interest, nevertheless they already demonstrate those qualities which made her prose accounts of Australia so popular’ (192).

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Published 1 October 1997 in Volume 18 No. 2. Subjects: Poetry, Women writers.

Cite as: Johnston, Judith. ‘‘Beyond the Regions of Ordinary ‘Lady’ Verse’: Two Uncollected Poems by Louisa Anne Meredith.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1997, doi: 10.20314/als.82d9096a3b.