Mary Anne Rawson's The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Digital Edition and Network Analysis

The Published Anthology



The Bow in the Cloud consists of 86 poems and prose pieces. Below are the published pieces, listed in the order in which they appeared in the anthology, that have been transcribed and encoded in TEI XML. Each item also includes 'textual paths' to manuscript versions of each piece (listed under 'Contents'), any related correspondence to the submission (such as cover letters), and, in some cases, visual material (such as photographs and artworks).

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  1. The Bow in the Cloud Christopher Ohge

Contents of this path:

  1. Title Page, 'The Rainbow', by James Montgomery, and Epigraphs
  2. Preface, by Mary Anne Rawson
  3. The Starting-Post; or, Clarkson at Wades-Mill, by Bernard Barton
  4. Leonard Dober, by James Montgomery
  5. Oppression, by Ann Gilbert (née Taylor)
  6. The Slave-Dowry, by Joseph Watson
  7. Sonnet, by Eliza Conder
  8. A Negro-Mother's Cradle-Song, by Bernard Barton
  9. The Slave's Lament, by Allan Cunningham
  10. Sonnet, by Francis Wrangham
  11. Latin Imitation, by Francis Wrangham
  12. West-Indian Slavery, by William Howitt
  13. The Negro-Mother, by Mary Howitt
  14. To the Slave, by Richard Winter Hamilton
  15. Appeal for the Injured African, by Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
  16. Hope, by Dinah Ball
  17. Sale of a South-African Slave, from Anon. to Richard Miles
  18. To My Native Country, by James Baldwin Brown
  19. The Slave-Ship, by Mary Sterndale
  20. The Negro, by John Bowring
  21. The Death of the Slave, by James Edmeston
  22. "A Voice from America's Plains" and "A Cry from the Isles of the West" , by Paul Moon James
  23. Liberty, by Agnes Bulmer
  24. Remarks on the Christian Duty of Putting an End to End Slavery, by Joseph John Gurney
  25. The Martyred Missionary's Grave, by Thomas Rawson Taylor
  26. To a Negro Infant, by Ann Gilbert (née Taylor)
  27. The Death of a Female Slave, by William Knibb
  28. A Christian Negro's Thanks and Prayer, by Bernard Barton
  29. The Negro Burial Ground, by James Baldwin Brown
  30. Rest, by Maria Benson
  31. Freedom Indeed, by J. W. H. Pritchard
  32. The Woldsman's Prayer, by Edward William Barnard
  33. Evening in the West Indies, by Elizabeth Jones
  34. The Black Soldier, by George Pilkington
  35. The Little African Pleader, by William Knibb
  36. Granville Sharp, by Dinah Townley
  37. The English Peasant, by William Howitt
  38. The Bible and Slavery, by Joseph Gilbert
  39. The Mother, by Ann Gilbert (née Taylor)
  40. Who is My Neighbor? by James Riddall Wood
  41. A Brief Account of a Much-Persecuted Christian Slave, by William Knibb
  42. "For Who Maketh Thee to Differ?" by Josiah Conder
  43. Sonnet. The African Mother. A Fact, by Jane E. Roscoe
  44. A Word for the Slave, by John Holland
  45. Pierre Sallah, by Dinah Townley
  46. The Desolate Valley, by Thomas Pringle
  47. The Creole Maiden's Song to the Marvel of Peru, by Richard Hill
  48. The Insurrection in Jamaica, Eustace Carey
  49. The Persecuted Missionary, by William Knibb and Thomas Burchell
  50. The Lot of the Slave, by Richard Cecil
  51. The Cup of Gold, by Samuel Carter Hall
  52. Visions of Slavery, by Mary Howitt
  53. Repose for the Weary, by J. R.
  54. The Abbé Grégoire, by John Pye-Smith
  55. True Liberty, by Matthew Bridges
  56. The Negro Will Work for Wages
  57. The Hope of the Slave, by Elizabeth Walker
  58. "Praise waits for Thee in Zion, Lord!", by James Douglas
  59. The Birthright of Britons, by Eliza Conder
  60. The Decision, by Lucy Townsend
  61. Sonnet On the Present Crisis of Affairs, as Regards the Emancipation of the Negroes, by Chauncey Hare Townshend
  62. Slavery, by A. H. Smith
  63. "He Being Dead Yet Speaketh", by Edward Henry Abney
  64. The Set Time, by John Holland
  65. Ode on the Abolition of Slavery, by Lord Morpeth
  66. Compensation for the Slave, by Thomas F. Buxton
  67. Libertas: Quae Sera Tamen, Respexit, &c. &c., by John Parker
  68. Funeral Oration, by John Ely
  69. The Grave of Wilberforce, By Thomas Hill
  70. The Aged Negro, by J. W. H. Pritchard
  71. The Abolition of Slavery, by James Townley
  72. The Triumph of Freedom, by Elizabeth Walker
  73. A Voice from the Land of Bondage, by Sarah J. Williams
  74. A Brief Account and Familiar Description of Jamaica..., by Richard Winter Hamilton
  75. The Forester of the Neutral Ground, by Thomas Pringle
  76. Futurity, by James Edmeston
  77. The Negro Poetess, by William Marsh
  78. Invocation to Liberty, by Elizabeth Walker
  79. Luke X.25–37, by Maria Stevens
  80. Song, by Agnes Bulmer
  81. The True Freedman, by Thomas Best
  82. They Ask Me for Some Radiant Lay, by Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
  83. The Dying Negress, by Charlotte Elliott
  84. Heard Ye Those Mild Tones of Gladness? by John Sheppard
  85. The Negro is Free, by James Montgomery
  86. The Goal; or, Clarkson in Old Age, by Bernard Barton

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