Eliot, George Sand and Elizabeth Barrett Browning as her influences. Isobel Armstrong, re-evaluating the longer works, notably "The Heather on Fire" and The Ascent of Man", saw in them "a gendered tradition in women's poetry of the nineteenth century". She noted that Blind, by re-configuring "a new myth of creativity and gender", demonstrated the best that this tradition could achieve in social and political analysis. References Sources Further reading External links IU Digital Library Program. Transcript: Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted With Darwin's Selected poems by Mathilde Blind Works at The Victorian Women Writers Project 1841 births 1896 deaths 19th-century English writers Victorian women writers Victorian poets English women poets German emigrants to England 19th-century English women writers German people of Jewish descent Writers from London Writers from Mannheim Burials at St Pancras and Islington Cemetery