MOTHER & DAUGHTER AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET‐SEQUENCE
BY THE LATEAUGUSTA WEBSTER
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTITo which are added Seven (her only other) SonnetsLondon MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK
1895The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved
“She” [Lady Charlotte Elliot] “was, by cultivation of mind and by
sympathy of heart, affined closely to a kind of women those sweet
singers never dreamed of—women who, loving art much and romance much,
‘love men and women more’—the noble band represented by George Eliot,
Mrs. Webster, and Miss Cobbe, who, in virtue of lofty purpose, purity of
soul, and deep sympathy with suffering humanity, are just now far ahead
of the men—bending their genius, like the rainbow, as a covenant of love
over ‘all flesh that is upon the earth.’”
THEODORE WATTS. ATHENÆUM, January 24, 1880.
Augusta Webster died September 5, 1894.
CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE 11‐14
- MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
- SEVEN OTHER SONNETS
