Appendix B

Summary

Since single poems published in newspapers and magazines, and often unattributed, are difficult to trace, this list of poems republished in Hawkshaw's lifetime, and reprinted after her death, is inevitably incomplete. As the list shows, the poems Hawkshaw wrote for her children were widely anthologised and appear in educational readers in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and the United States over a number of years during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Research into the republishing of Hawkshaw's poetry has raised an interesting misappropriation of authorship. Early twentieth-century anthologies of children's poetry frequently identify Ann Hawkshaw as the author of Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children (1852) and Aunt Effie's Gift to the Nursery (1854). Since 1906, poems from these collections have been included in several anthologies and educational readers in England and the United States, with Hawkshaw named as the author. Indeed, volume one of the first edition of Halkett and Laing's Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain, published in 1882 and whilst Hawkshaw was still alive, ascribes Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children and Aunt Effie's Gift to the Nursery to ‘Mrs Hawkshaw’. However, ten years later, John Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology (1892) correctly credits Jane Euphemia Saxby (née Browne) with the authorship of Aunt Effie's Gift to the Nursery.