Abstract
This essay considers Caroline Leakey's volume of poetry, Lyra Australis, or Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land (1854), and argues that the more broadly feminist aspects of Leakeyâs poetry, particularly its sympathetic portrayal of âthe fallen womanâ, are connected with developments in Anglophone womenâs poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century. It reads Leakey's volume as a radical rejection of the increasing restrictions placed on sympathetic narratives about âfallen womenâ by the mid nineteenth century by contextualising it within broader frameworks of womenâs writing on the fallen woman.
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