The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has a significant collection of first and early editions of poetry by women writers of the British Romantic Period (1770-1839). The 83-volume nucleus of the collection, which was acquired in 1996, has been expanded to more than 425 works by such writers as Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, and numerous other authors, both well-known and more obscure. Selected prose works by women poets, notably Helen Maria Williams' controversial books on the French Revolution, are also part of the collection. The works, which range in subject from poems for very young children to impassioned political statements, were written by women of every class of society, from aristocrats to domestic servants.
Permanent address to digital collection: https://doi.org/10.25810/4wn3-0x82.
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Name of the collection: Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Title derived from original captions on the work by the creator. If the original title is not available titles are created by the cataloger.
Individual(s) or corporate entities that created or are associated with the work.
Common names seen in the collection include: Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827; Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851; More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Language material
Location of where the item was created or came from.
Place terms typically are: England--London; Scotland--Edinburgh
Notes stating who printed the item.
Date created or issued.
Dates span from the late 1700's through the early 1800's.
Monograph/item
Contains the textual or coded form for the language of the content of the resource.
Language(s) seen in this collection include: English.
A particular physical presentation of a resource, including the physical form or medium of material for a resource.
Form terms include: electronic
Standard that indicates the nature and format of a document, file, or assortment of bytes. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for all official MIME.
Media type(s) in this collection: application/pdf
The size or scale of the work.
The method by which a resource achieved digital form.
Origin for this collection: reformatted digital
Tables of contents were copied and reformatted from e-book webpages that were created during the original cataloging of this collection. Only the links were originally in the metadata but replaced in 2021 with the full table of contents for two reasons: 1) The URLs (not the one shown below) input in the metadata were no longer working. 2) The webpapges might be deleted at some point and are not updated anyway. Below is a link that does work and is recorded for reference of the address of where the tables of contents came from.
Example of the link to the e-book webpages: https://lib-ebook.colorado.edu/sca/specialcollections/wprp/012.htm
Additional notes or description of the content of the item. May contain cataloger's notes as deemed relevant. The notes field also contains many notes, citations, and epigraphs that were retrieved in 2021 and only seen on the e-book webpages. Information about the e-book URLs is described in more detail in the "Table of Contents" section above.
A term or phrase representing the primary topic(s) on which a work is focused.
Common subject terms used in this collection include: English poetry; English drama (Tragedy); Children's poetry, English; Religious poetry; Literature and society
A name used as a subject or additional authors, recipients, or names mentioned within the record.
Geographic location(s) relevant to the item.
Some coverage terms used in the collection include: Great Britain; France--Paris; South Carolina
Used for chronological subject terms or temporal coverage.
Terms used: 19th century
Local classification number assigned to the item, as well as a bibliographic number for identification in the library's catalog.
Example classification numbers include: WPRP 372; WPRP 40
Example bib numbers include: b26536729; b3585960x
Information that identifies other resources related to the one being described.
Contains a unique standard number or code that distinctively identifies a resource. Typically the media file name, including the extension.
Example: nspc_wprp_22.pdf
The institution or repository that holds the resource or where it is available: University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Information about restrictions imposed on access to a resource.
First statement in collection: The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Second statement in collection: Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be used commercially without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
For more information about this collection visit the webpage at the CU Boulder ArchivesSpace; Women poets, American -- 20th century.
Collection includes a mix of MARC metadata and non-MARC metadata.