Francis Russell Nixon
, the first Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, encouraged her to publish her poems, and before her departure for England in March 1853 she received confirmation that they would appear in book form...
Residence
Caroline Leakey
In 1850 CL
lived at Cairn Lodge in Boa Vista (now a suburb of Hobart) in the home of Anna Maria Nixon
and her husband, Francis Russell Nixon
, Tasmania's first Anglican Bishop. The Nixons...
Textual Features
Caroline Leakey
The poems in the second section, Boa Vista; or, Songs of the Balcony, were written while recovering, often sitting on the balcony at Francis Russell Nixon
's home, and they breathe the better...
