Abstract
The decorative literary annuals and gift books that emerged in the 1820s provided an accessible home for women’s Arthurian poetry and cultivated a pictorial aesthetic that would come to dominate much nineteenth-century medievalist verse. Garner examines poems by Louisa Stuart Costello, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Howitt, and Caroline Norton in their original annual contexts, and argues that the annuals ushered in a new fashion for individual poems about the Arthurian legend’s female characters. Particular attention is paid to Arthurian poems in The Gem, Forget Me Not, Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book, and The Tribute. The chapter ends by arguing that Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ should be read in the context of annual Arthuriana and earlier poems on the subject by his female contemporaries.
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