(Mary) Matilda Betham

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ARTHUR and ALBINA. ()
• [CANTATA DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. ()
• [CANTATA. [DELL] METASTAISO.] TRANSLATION. ()
• CEN'LIN, PRINCE OF MERCIA. ()
• THE COMPLAINT OF FANCY. To A. R. C. ()
• EDITHA ()
• FRAGMENT. ()
• FRAGMENT. ()
• THE FRATERNAL DUEL. ()
• HUMAN PLEASURE OR PAIN. ()
• IN A LETTER to A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA. ()
• IN MEMORY OF Mr. AGOSTINO ISOLA, OF CAMBRIDGE, Who died on the 5th of June, 1797. ()
• INVITATION, To J. B. C. ()
• [LA FORTUNA. DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. ()
• THE LONELY WALK To W. S. B. ()
• ON A FAN ()
• ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE From O — ()
• THE OUTLAW ()
• PHILEMON. ()
• RHAPSODY ()
• [SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.] SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION ()
• THE TERRORS OF GUILT ()
• TO M. I. ()
• TO M. I. ()
• TO SIMPLICITY. ()
• TO THE NUNS OF BODNEY. ()
• Written April the 18th, 1796. ()
• Written in London, on the 19th of March 1796. ()
• WRITTEN IN ZIMMERMANN's SOLITUDE. ()
• WRITTEN ON WHITSUN-MONDAY 1795. ()

• Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich: Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich, 1797. (ESTC T143264)
  • ARTHUR and ALBINA.
  • THE FRATERNAL DUEL.
  • IN A LETTER to A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA.
  • THE LONELY WALK To W. S. B.
  • THE OUTLAW
  • INVITATION, To J. B. C.
  • WRITTEN ON WHITSUN-MONDAY 1795.
  • PHILEMON.
  • ON A FAN
  • TO SIMPLICITY.
  • THE TERRORS OF GUILT
  • CEN'LIN, PRINCE OF MERCIA.
  • RHAPSODY
  • HUMAN PLEASURE OR PAIN.
  • THE COMPLAINT OF FANCY. To A. R. C.
  • ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE From O —
  • TO M. I.
  • [CANTATA. [DELL] METASTAISO.] TRANSLATION.
  • [LA FORTUNA. DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION.
  • [CANTATA DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION.
  • [SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.] SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION
  • EDITHA
  • TO M. I.
  • WRITTEN IN ZIMMERMANN's SOLITUDE.
  • IN MEMORY OF Mr. AGOSTINO ISOLA, OF CAMBRIDGE, Who died on the 5th of June, 1797.
  • TO THE NUNS OF BODNEY.
  • Written in London, on the 19th of March 1796.
  • FRAGMENT.
  • FRAGMENT.
  • Written April the 18th, 1796.

Source editions

• Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich: Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich, 1797. (ESTC T143264)

Bibliography

ODNB 2300

Editions

• Reiman, Donald H., ed. Poems. New York: Garland, 1978. Print.
• Reiman, Donald H., ed. The Lay of Marie, a Poem. New York: Garland, 1978. Print.

Biography

• Bailey, Elaine. Matilda Betham: A New Biography. Wordsworth Circle 38(3) (Summer 2007): 143-146. Print.

Reference works

• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 48-49. Print.

Criticism

• Bailey, Elaine. 'A Singular Person': Portraits of Subjectivity in the Poetry and Prose of Matilda Betham. Unpub. diss., U of Ottawa, Jul. 2003. Print.
• Paley, Morton D. Coleridge's To Matilda Betham, from a Stranger. Wordsworth Circle 27(3) (Summer 1996): 169-172. Print.
• Wordsworth, Jonathan. Matilda Betham, The Lay of Marie, 1816. Wordsworth Circle 27(3) (Summer 1996): 172-175. Print.