Elizabeth Kent (writer)
Elizabeth Kent ('Bessy') was a nineteenth century British writer on botanical and horticultural matters.
Her best known work, Flora Domestica, written with Hunt, was published anonymously in 1823, and incorrectly attributed to Henry Phillips by FW Burbidge in his work on Narcissus (1875).[1][2] Other works include Sylvan Sketches (1825). She wrote for the Magazine of Natural History, taught botany and wrote books for children. [3]
Kent never married.[3] Her sister was Marianne Kent, wife of Leigh Hunt, the English critic and writer. Through her brother-in-law, Hunt, she belonged to a circle (the Cockney School)[4] of contemporary writers including Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John Clare.[3] She acted as Hunt's agent and amanuensis.[2]
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- "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. doi:10.1353/rom.0.0038. 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.
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