Romantic

Caroline Bowles Southey

1786–1854


Caroline Anne Bowles (1786–1854) was born at Buckland, near Lymington in Hampshire, and became known as a poet and prose writer. She corresponded with Robert Southey for many years and married him in 1839.

She is a different writer from her husband; her poem "To Death" appears in The Oxford Book of English Verse.

  1. To Death
  2. The Pauper's Death-Bed

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