Bodichon on ‘Slavery in the South’, From the Rossetti Library
HONE, William.
The three Trials of William Hone for publishing three Parodies … London, William Hone, 1818. [bound with:] [PERIODICAL EXTRACTS.] Extracts from the Westminster Review and The English Woman’s Journal (and others?) of articles on Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Abelard and Eloise, London Songs, ‘Italy and the War of 1866’, reviews of William Hepworth Dixon’s New America, and four works by Swinburne (1866); ‘Paradise’ by Christina Rossetti; and ‘Algerine Notes’, ‘Slavery in the South’ and four other articles by Barbara Bodichon. [and with two others.] London, 1818-1870.
8vo, Hone: pp. [iii]–iv, 48, 45, [3], ‘82’ [i.e. 28]; bound together with 19 extracted articles, reviews etc.; covers and spine wanting, manuscript index in the hand of William Michael Rossetti’s to front endpaper, with his ownership inscriptions and those of his daughter Mary Elizabeth Madox Rossetti (dated 1919).
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The three Trials of William Hone for publishing three Parodies … London, William Hone, 1818. [bound with:] [PERIODICAL EXTRACTS.] Extracts from the Westminster Review and The English Woman’s Journal (and others?) of articles on Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Abelard and Eloise, London Songs, ‘Italy and the War of 1866’, reviews of William Hepworth Dixon’s New America, and four works by Swinburne (1866); ‘Paradise’ by Christina Rossetti; and ‘Algerine Notes’, ‘Slavery in the South’ and four other articles by Barbara Bodichon. [and with two others.]
Collected edition of these accounts of the three libel trials of William Hone, in which he was acquitted on all counts. A note by William Michael Rossetti dated 1905 at foot of the index leaf points out that Shelley was a subscriber.
Among the many other pamphlets and articles bound in here are several abolitionist pieces by the feminist and philanthropist Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891): ‘Slavery in the South’ (a long piece in several parts), ‘Of those who are the property of others, and of the great power that holds others as property’, and ‘Accomplices’. ‘One of the most excellent women I have ever known’ (W. M. Rossetti, Some Reminiscences), Bodichon was a painter, writer, and long-term friend of the Rossettis, who visited her county house Scalands during Elizabeth Siddal’s illness in 1854 and again in 1870, when Dante Gagriel Rossetti stayed several months, entertaining the Morrises there and writing. In 1857–8 Bodichon had taken a honeymoon trip to the American South, and her resulting articles in The English Woman’s Journal linked the subjugation of slaves with that of women. On the latter subject, we find here an article by Frances Power Cobbe on ‘The Preventative Branch of the Bristol Female Mission’ (1861).
The extracted poems by Christina Rossetti, ‘Paradise. I. In a Dream’ and ‘II. In a Symbol’, have been taken from their first appearance in Lyra Messianica (1864); the second poem was later included by William Michael Rossetti in his posthumous edition of her New Poems (1896) as ‘Birds of Paradise’.