
Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde
Liverpool University Press
Published on 21. February 2025
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-1-83624-037-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first contemporary edition of the poetry of Jane Wilde, nee 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 This edition, which contains several previously unpublished poems, will make the poetry of this emblematic figure in nineteenth-century Irish writing accessible to a contemporary audience for the first time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83624-037-2 (9781836240372)
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Persons
Eibhear Walshe (1962-2024) was a biographer and novelist, as well as Director of Creative Writing at University College Cork. Eleanor Fitzsimons is a biographer and researcher and the author of Wilde's Women. She is an honorary patron of the Oscar Wilde Society.
Content
Chronology
Speranza - A Poetic Life by Eleanor Fitzsimons
Reading the Poems of Jane Wilde by Eibhear Walshe
Poems by Speranza
Publication History
Bibliography
Speranza - A Poetic Life by Eleanor Fitzsimons
Reading the Poems of Jane Wilde by Eibhear Walshe
Poems by Speranza
Publication History
Bibliography