Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Scholarly EditionMain MenuEditor's IntroductionEditor's IntroductionThe Published AnthologyContains all of the pieces published in the anthology, with an editor's noteSelected Unpublished PiecesTranscriptions of some unpublished pieces sent to RawsonText analysisResults of analysing the anthology and its manuscriptsNetwork AnalysisNetwork analysis prototypes, including a network graph of connections in the archiveMap of PlacenamesA map of all places associated with pieces in the anthologyPeople MentionedBow in the Cloud: PersonographyFurther ReadingsA Bibliography of sources relating to this projectThis project was supported by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication in 2023/2024 (FEL-289788). Find project data on GitHub.
12023-11-13T08:11:58+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Forester of the Neutral Ground, by Thomas Pringle18Poem by Thomas Pringleplain2024-09-14T16:01:39+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12024-08-06T12:08:10+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from Thomas Burchell to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/103)18Letter from Thomas Burchell to Mary Anne Rawson. Includes his submission of the narrative, an enclosure to Knibb's work 'The Persecuted Missionary', which contains a striking and affecting account of the feeling of the Christian enslaved people towards their cruel persecutors. Also, Burchell instructs Mrs Rawson not to publish his name.plain2024-08-07T14:17:36+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12024-01-08T14:30:13+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to George Rawson (English MS 415/159)12Letter from Lord Macaulay to George Rawson declining to contribute to The Bow in the Cloud. Contains an interesting question on Sir Andrew Agnew's 'Lord's Day Bill' and how he and Mrs Rawson argued about it in Hanover Square. Letter published in Pinney's Cambridge UP letters edition (Vol. 2).plain2024-09-09T12:23:32+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-19T14:53:18+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616"For Who Maketh Thee to Differ?" by Josiah Conder11Poem by Josiah Conderplain2024-09-14T15:43:14+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-09-15T09:32:37+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Cup of Gold, by Samuel Carter Hall11plain2024-09-14T16:16:27+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-11-13T10:34:22+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Futurity, by James Edmeston11Poem by James Edmeston.plain2024-09-11T16:56:07+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:12:14+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616To My Native Country, by James Baldwin Brown10Poem by James Baldwin Brownplain2024-09-11T11:56:04+00:001827-04-13Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-02T15:49:04+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Black Soldier, by George Pilkington9Extract from a letter describing a black soldier in a black regimentplain2024-09-14T15:26:46+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-31T11:36:37+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Persecuted Missionary, by William Knibb and Thomas Burchell9Prose piece by William Knibb, with an extract from a letter by Thomas Burchell, another missionaryplain2024-09-14T16:09:03+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-22T18:27:51+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Pierre Sallah, by Dinah Townley8Prose piece by by Dinah Townleyplain2024-09-14T11:52:53+00:001833-08-23Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-10-12T23:04:49+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Ode on the Abolition of Slavery, by Lord Morpeth8Poem by Lord Morpethplain2024-09-14T16:41:37+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-12-11T01:08:17+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Song, by Agnes Bulmer8plain2024-09-14T17:03:26+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:12:50+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Negro Burial Ground, by James Baldwin Brown7poem by James Baldwin Brownplain2024-09-14T13:07:26+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12024-03-19T13:49:32+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from William Knibb to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/58)7Letter from William Knibb to Mary Anne Rawson, including discussion of The Bow in the Cloud, and Knibb's views on slavery.plain2024-09-09T17:14:53+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:12:49+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from John Bowring to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/45)6Letter from John Bowring to Mary Anne Rawson, thanking her for sending a copy of the published volume of The Bow in the Cloud, and praising the finished article.plain2024-09-09T12:06:57+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:13:03+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Slave's Lament, by Allan Cunningham6Poem by Allan Cunninghamplain2024-09-13T16:02:44+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:13:04+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Rest, by Maria Benson6plain2024-09-14T13:08:46+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12024-01-25T15:38:25+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from Eustace Carey to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/94)6Letter from Eustace Carey in London to Mary Anne Rawson in Sheffield; he relates that she (Rawson) had not been pleased with the bulkiness of the book.plain2024-09-09T16:48:25+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:12:12+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Hope, by Dinah Ball5Poem by Dinah Ballplain1792024-09-14T11:51:49+00:001825Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:13:02+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Latin Imitation, by Francis Wrangham5Poem in Latin by Archdeacon Francis Wranghamplain2024-09-13T16:14:40+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:12:11+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Liberty, by Agnes Bulmer4Poem by by Agnes Bulmerplain2024-09-14T12:59:45+00:001833Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:13:04+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Negro, by John Bowring4Poem by John Bowringplain2024-09-14T12:56:07+00:001826-02-04Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:13:04+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616The Death of the Slave, by James Edmeston4plain2024-09-11T11:59:32+00:001826Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-10-14T15:17:11+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from John Parker to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/119)3Letter from John Parker to Mary Anne Rawson, agreeing to provide a contribution to The Bow in the Cloud, and suggesting other contributors.plain2024-09-09T17:07:53+00:00Ink
Letter from John Parker to Mary Anne Rawson, agreeing to provide a contribution to The Bow in the Cloud, and suggesting other contributors.
Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
Letter from Allan Cunningham to Mary Anne Rawson with his work entitled 'The Slave's Lament'.
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12023-08-02T16:07:07+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from George Pilkington to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 414/71)2Letter from George Pilkington to Mary Anne Rawson. Includes his poem 'The Black Soldier'. Lines of cross-written textplain2023-08-02T16:07:25+00:00Ink
Letter from George Pilkington to Mary Anne Rawson. Includes his poem 'The Black Soldier'. Lines of cross-written text.
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12023-08-01T11:12:27+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Letter from Thomas Campbell to Mary Anne Rawson (English MS 415/182)1Edited Letter from Thomas Campbell to Mary Anne Rawson, declining to contribute to The Bow in the Cloud.plain2023-08-01T11:12:27+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616
12023-08-01T11:12:36+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Hope (English MS 414/36b)1Rawson's fair copy of Dinah Ball's poem 'Hope'plain2023-08-01T11:12:36+00:00Ink
Dinah Ball's poem entitled 'Hope', written after first hearing of the formation of Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association. Dinah Ball was Mrs Rawson's governess.
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12023-08-01T11:13:05+00:00Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616Portrait of Mary Howitt (English MS 414/25+)1Autographed Carte-de-visite, photographic portrait of the English painter and writer Mary Howitt, standing with her hands clasped; she wears a cloth bonnet, lace type shawl and dark coloured gloves. Trade plate of the Patent Casket Portrait Co. Produced by the Casket Portrait Company Limited studio at 40 Charing Cross, London. 'Mary Howitt' is handwritten at the top.plain2023-08-01T11:13:05+00:00Ink; Pencil
Autographed Carte-de-visite, photographic portrait of the English painter and writer Mary Howitt, standing with her hands clasped; she wears a cloth bonnet, lace type shawl and dark coloured gloves. Trade plate of the Patent Casket Portrait Co. Produced by the Casket Portrait Company Limited studio at 40 Charing Cross, London. 'Mary Howitt' is handwritten at the top.
Christopher Ohge67a4fbaba4797c94aa865988788fca89b5c37616