Susan Evance
Susan Evance (later Hooper, fl. 1808 – 1818) was an English romantic poet. Her poems focus on sentiment, often with melancholy themes, and also reveal her religious convictions and socially progressive ideals.[1][2][3] She is noted for her use of the sonnet form, following the legacy of Charlotte Smith as part of the English Romantic revival of that form.[4][5] Her sonnets on decay, especially on the ruin of Netley Abbey, have been considered Gothic in tone.[6][7][8][9]
Most of Evance’s biographical details are inferred from her poems: she had sisters and a brother in the navy; and she was said to be young when her first book was published.[10] Between the publications of her first and second books she married a Mr Hooper.[11] By 1818 she seems to have been a mother.[11]
She published Poems... Selected from her Earliest Productions, to Those of the Present Year in 1808 and A Poem Occasioned by the Cessation of Public Mourning for Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte; together with Sonnets and Other Productions in 1818. She also contributed to A Sequel to the Poetical Monitor, consisting of pieces select and origin adapted to improve the minds and manners of young persons in 1811.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ Aaron, Jane (2020-06-04). Women’s Writing from Wales before 1914. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-65150-8.
- ^ Öznur, Yemez (2022). "The Melancholic Persona in Susan Evance's Sonnet To Melancholy". Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. 32 (1): 105–120. doi:10.26650/LITERA2021-871225.
- ^ Feldman, Paula R.; Robinson, Daniel, eds. (1999). "Susan Evance (fl. 1808-18)". A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850: 134–5.
- ^ Feldman, Paula R.; Robinson, Daniel (2002-12-20). A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850. Oxford University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-19-802753-9.
- ^ Knowles, Claire (2006). "Female Poetic Tradition in the Regency Period: Susan Evance and the Evolution of Sentimentality". Keats-Shelley Journal. 55: 199–225. ISSN 0453-4387.
- ^ Hoeveler, Diane Long (2014-05-10). The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-78316-193-5.
- ^ Bloom, Clive (2010-06-06). Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present. A&C Black. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-84706-050-1.
- ^ White, Adam (2017-07-19). John Clare's Romanticism. Springer. p. 155. ISBN 978-3-319-53859-4.
- ^ Bloom, Clive (2021-02-03). The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. Springer Nature. p. 4. ISBN 978-3-030-40866-4.
- ^ Ferber, Michael, ed. (2021), "Susan Evance (1788?–? English)", Romanticism: 100 Poems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 81–81, ISBN 978-1-108-49105-1, retrieved 2024-06-27
- ^ a b c Feldman, Paula R. (2001-01-19). British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology. JHU Press. pp. 241–2. ISBN 978-0-8018-6640-1.
External links[edit]
- Works by Susan Evance at All Poetry