By Ann Hawkshaw

‘The accrued Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings jointly Hawkshaw’s 4 volumes of poetry and republishes them for the 1st time. Debbie Bark’s biography, creation and notes spotlight Hawkshaw’s most vital poems and suggest connections with extra canonical works along which her writing could be productively seen. Hawkshaw’s writings were mostly ignored because the early 20th century, yet this new quantity reaffirms their skill to supply a superb perception into the altering political and spiritual panorama of the Victorian period.

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Xxxvi The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw City and his country estate with relative ease. Charles Darwin’s diary records a visit to the Hawkshaws at Hollycombe between 7 June and 9 June 1876, with the Hollycombe visitors’ book for the period showing that his wife, Emma Darwin, and botanist J. D. 50 Unfortunately there are no further records of these visits, or of the extent or nature of these acquaintances. 51 The original school building housed a rectangular stained-glass window depicting a mother and three children entitled Fides, Spes et Caritas (Faith, Hope and Charity).

Druid’ OED). Baal: the chief male deity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations (n. ‘Baal’ OED). Phoenicians: native or inhabitants of Phoenicia, an ancient country consisting, in the 8 The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw And in the forests of the west, That cast their shadows o’er the breast Of deep Ontario’s lake, or wave By many an Indian hunter’s grave, Rise the green mounds of earlier time;17 The work of nations, who are dead, Past like the leaves the winds have shed. And still on Grecian hills and plains Are roofless temples, priestless fanes, All beautiful; as though decay But touched them with a pencilled ray: So autumn skies give colours bright To forests which they come to blight.

In these poems Ann’s upbringing in a family of religious dissenters, and her position as the wife of an engineer whose work brought her into contact with some of the leading scientists and innovators of the day, come together in a narrative perspective that looks to accommodate intellectual and scientific progress with a deeply held faith. By reaffirming Christian theology, Hawkshaw resists a move towards rational explanations of the natural world and man’s place within it. By upholding her belief in God the Creator and the pre-eminence of humanity, Hawkshaw makes a notable contribution to mid-nineteenthcentury assertions of faith.

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