In 1846 a collection of poetry, A Book of Highland Minstrelsy, quickly attracted the favorable attention of readers and reviewers in both England and Scotland. The richness and depth of feeling in these new interpretations of ancient Scottish folklore made a name for the twenty-four-year-old poet Eliza Ogilvy, a young woman who had just begun to attempt to balance her creative impulse with her duties as a new wife and mother. Ogilvy would continue to write poetry throughout her long life, but her work was largely forgotten in the century following her death. In 1971, however, a private collection of letters to Ogilvy written by her intimate friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was offered for sale. The subsequent publication of these letters managed to recall Ogilvy from complete obscurity although her poetry remains largely unanthologized and unread. Nevertheless, the quality and the wide range of her work are remarkable, and many...