A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne

by John William Cousin

Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne (BOWLES) (1786-1854). -- Poetess, dau. of a captain in the navy, submitted a poem, Ellen Fitzarthur to Southey (q.v.), which led to a friendship, and to a proposed joint poem on Robin Hood, not, however, carried out, and eventually to her becoming the poet's second wife. She wrote various other works, including Chapters on Churchyards and Tales of the Factories.