Found 2 collections related to Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

Amelia Opie, née Alderson, English novelist and poet. The Amelia Opie manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and artwork. The writings include: a holograph story, "The Brithday," and a number of holograph poems. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1828-1845. Correspondents include: Elizabeth Inchbald, the writer and actress; James Montgomery, the hymn writer and poet; Jane Porter, the novelist; Robert Southey, the poet, and over thirty others. The artwork consists of over one hundred thirty pencil portraits of friends and relatives, most of whom remain unidentified. less

Holograph poem, "The Felon," signed : [ca. 1800?] : (B'ANA 0641) : 1 p.; begins, "Oh! mark his wan and hollow cheeks! & mark his eye-balls glare! / & mark his teeth in anguish clenched, the anguish of despair!" Nearly a fair copy, save two minor emendations in the second line of the second stanza. Another known mansucript of "The Felon" is dated 1800 (cf. D. L. Macdonald's Monk Lewis, p. 239). less