Matthew James Lawless
‘The Bands of Love’ (GWP020)
Title:
The Bands of Love
Illustrator:
Engraver:
Source Text:
Dorothy [Dora] Greenwell,
'The Bands of Love'
1862 in Good Words (T. Constable, Edinburgh: Strahan & Co., London: Strahan & Co.),
3, 10 (Oct 1862),
631–32
Size:
127 mm x 102 mm / 5"0 x 4"1
Illustration appears on:
p. 632
Illustration no.:
1
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DMVI Code:
GWP020
Notes:
Centre of page. Poem subtitled 'Founded on a Lancashire superstition, that a person cannot die in the arms of any one who wishes strongly to retain the parting soul in life.'