Elizabeth Kent (writer)
Elizabeth Kent ('Bessy') (1791–1861) was a nineteenth century British writer on botanical and horticultural matters.
Life
The younger sister of Marianne Kent, the future wife of
Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John Clare.[4] Her closeness to Hunt and her ambivalent position in her sister's household led to much contemporary gossip:[5] it may be significant that it was only after her breach with the household in 1822 that Bess was able to emerge as a writer in her own right.[6]
Kent never married.[4]
Works
Her best known work, Flora Domestica, quoting extensively from Hunt and Keats,Magazine of Natural History, taught botany and wrote books for children.[4]
See also
- Benjamin Robert Haydon
References
Bibliography
- "Women and Botany in 18th and Early 19th-Century England". Michigan State University Libraries. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- Hay, Daisy (2008). "Elizabeth Kent's Collaborators". Romanticism. 14 (3): 272–281. S2CID 161980624. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the Treatment of Plants in Pots and Illustrations From the Works of the Poets. London: Taylor and Hessey. 1823.
- Sylvan Sketches, or a Companion to the Park and the Shrubbery, with Illustrations from the Works of the Poets. London, Taylor and Hessey, 1825
- Burbidge, Frederick William (1875). The Narcissus: Its History and Culture: With Coloured Plates and Descriptions of All Known Species and Principal Varieties. London: L. Reeve & Company. Retrieved 28 September 2014. (also available as pdf)
- Jeffrey N. Cox, Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 521 63100 9.
- Roe, Nicholas (1999). "'The Hunt Era'. Jeffrey N. Cox, Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 521 63100 9. Price: £40 ($59.95). The Examiner, 1818-1822. Introduced by Yasuo Deguchi, 5 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1998. ISBN 1 85196 427 4. Price: £550". Romanticism on the Net (14). doi:10.7202/005854ar. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
