Isabella Kelly (née Fordyce)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ANSWER TO THE SONG OF 'TRUST NOT MAN,' &c. ()
• The CHOICE; or, DULL HOUR PAST. ()
• THE EAGLE, THE KITE, AND THE COCK. An Emblematic Fable, most respectfully addressed to the Right Hon. General C——y. Written in the year 1788. ()
• EPITAPH ON A FAVORITE TAME CHICKEN. ()
• EXTEMPORE AFTER A DISPUTE AT DUNKERQUE. ()
• EXTEMPORE in the GARDEN of a CONVENT belonging to LES SOEURS NOIR, à BOURBURG. ()
• EXTEMPORE ON ARRIVING IN THE COUNTRY. ()
• THE HAWK, THE MAGPIES, AND THE PIGEONS. A Fable, very respectfully addressed to the Hon. Mrs. E—tw—k. ()
• IN THE BLANK LEAF OF LORD LYTTELTON'S WORKS. ()
• LINES FOR THE BLANK LEAF OF MY PRAYER BOOK: WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY. ()
• MIRANDA and the RED-BREAST. A FABLE FOR THE LADIES. ()
• ON A CHILD'S BIRTH DAY. ()
• ON BEHOLDING ARTHUR ASLEEP. ()
• ON THE RIGHT HONORABLE GENERAL C——Y LOSING HIS ELECTION FOR BURY ST. EDMUND'S. ()
• REFLECTIONS AFTER VIEWING A SCENE OF DISTRESS. ()
• THE REFORMED MAN OF FASHION, TO HIS FRIEND. ()
• RETIRED THOUGHTS TO A DEPARTED INFANT. ()
• TO A BROTHER, ON ENTERING THE ARMY. ()
• TO A WANDERING HUSBAND, FROM A DESERTED WIFE. ()
• TO AN UNBORN INFANT. ()
• To ARTHUR. ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF AN HONEST MAN, MR. B. D., ADDRESSED TO HIS WIDOW. ()
• To the MEMORY of ELIZA F——E, AN EXEMPLARY MOTHER. ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUT. JAMES ABERNETHIE, LOST ON BOARD THE GLORIEUX, 1782. ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONORABLE MISS CAROLINE CAMPBEL. ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED MR. ROBERT HAWKE K——Y. ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE CAPTAIN T. H. ABBOTT. RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE ARTILLERY. ()
• THE VISION. ()
• WRITTEN IN VERY DEEP AFFLICTION. ()

• Kelly, Isabella, 1759-1857. Collection of Poems and Fables on Several Occasions. London: W. Richardson, 1794. 72p. (ESTC T122123)
  • TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED MR. ROBERT HAWKE K——Y.
  • To the MEMORY of ELIZA F——E, AN EXEMPLARY MOTHER.
  • The CHOICE; or, DULL HOUR PAST.
  • MIRANDA and the RED-BREAST. A FABLE FOR THE LADIES.
  • THE REFORMED MAN OF FASHION, TO HIS FRIEND.
  • To ARTHUR.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE CAPTAIN T. H. ABBOTT. RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE ARTILLERY.
  • TO AN UNBORN INFANT.
  • WRITTEN IN VERY DEEP AFFLICTION.
  • EXTEMPORE AFTER A DISPUTE AT DUNKERQUE.
  • TO A WANDERING HUSBAND, FROM A DESERTED WIFE.
  • EXTEMPORE in the GARDEN of a CONVENT belonging to LES SOEURS NOIR, à BOURBURG.
  • TO A BROTHER, ON ENTERING THE ARMY.
  • EXTEMPORE ON ARRIVING IN THE COUNTRY.
  • IN THE BLANK LEAF OF LORD LYTTELTON'S WORKS.
  • LINES FOR THE BLANK LEAF OF MY PRAYER BOOK: WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONORABLE MISS CAROLINE CAMPBEL.
  • RETIRED THOUGHTS TO A DEPARTED INFANT.
  • ON THE RIGHT HONORABLE GENERAL C——Y LOSING HIS ELECTION FOR BURY ST. EDMUND'S.
  • EPITAPH ON A FAVORITE TAME CHICKEN.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF AN HONEST MAN, MR. B. D., ADDRESSED TO HIS WIDOW.
  • THE VISION.
  • ANSWER TO THE SONG OF 'TRUST NOT MAN,' &c.
  • ON BEHOLDING ARTHUR ASLEEP.
  • ON A CHILD'S BIRTH DAY.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUT. JAMES ABERNETHIE, LOST ON BOARD THE GLORIEUX, 1782.
  • REFLECTIONS AFTER VIEWING A SCENE OF DISTRESS.
  • THE HAWK, THE MAGPIES, AND THE PIGEONS. A Fable, very respectfully addressed to the Hon. Mrs. E—tw—k.
  • THE EAGLE, THE KITE, AND THE COCK. An Emblematic Fable, most respectfully addressed to the Right Hon. General C——y. Written in the year 1788.

Source editions

• Kelly, Isabella, 1759-1857. Collection of Poems and Fables on Several Occasions. London: W. Richardson, 1794. 72p. (ESTC T122123)

Bibliography

ODNB 37626

Editions

• Lonsdale, Roger, ed. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. 481-483. Print.

Reference works

• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 183-184. Print.

Criticism

• Raisanen, Elizabeth. Pregnancy poems in the Romantic period: re-writing the mother's legacy. Women's Studies 45(2) (2016): 101-121. Print.