Esther Nelson

'[7] In 1841 Nelson took a trip to Paris, apparently for health reasons,[6] but she returned to the Isle of Man where she died of tuberculosis on Tuesday 21 March 1843, at the age of 33, in her family home at the rectory at Bride.

[9] Nelson's work continued to be highly regarded after her death, most notably by the Manx national poet, T. E. Brown, who wrote that: We should not forget that true woman of genius.

Often I think of her, and her early doom; and Bride seems to me a shrine of splendid promise and aspirations unfulfilled save in God... My father thought very highly of her poems.

They poems circle around the central idea of the inevitability of the loss of happiness and innocence in the onslaught of 'that grim spoiler, Time'.

"[11] This side to her work shows in the book's recurring concern with death, as is demonstrated with titles such as 'The Suicide', 'My Brother's Grave', 'The Dying Girl' and 'To the Dead'.