Isle of Wight

DING 2012: “Born in Carisbrooke, I.W. to John Johnson and Elizabeth Smith.  She lived at Wroxall Cottage, I. W., near Newport, her father’s farm, until she moved to Perth upon her marriage to George Moncrieff (?-1822) on July 9th 1814. He was the second son of Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncrieff. She published a collection of sonnets in 1810. The present dialect poem was written in 1863 for her cousin C. Roach Smith. He had it published that same year in The Gentleman’s Magazine and later included it in his Glossary of Words in Use in the Isle of Wight (1881).”

Works

“A Dream of the Isle of Wight”. 1863. In C. Roach Smith. “Isle of Wight Vernacular”. The Gentleman’s Magazine 214: 630-633.

Not in KingKong Project

For further information about his life and works, see:

Behrendt, Stephen. 2002. “Telling Secrets: The Sonnets of Anna Maria Smallpiece and Mary F. Johnson”. European Romantic Review 13.4: 393-410.

Feldman, Paula R. and Daniel Robinson. 2003. A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic Era Revival 1750-1850. Oxford: University Press: 138-140.

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