The Keepsake

The Keepsake by Miss Power is a 1851 collection of poems, tales, and moral sketches edited by Miss Power. Published in London by David Bogue (Fleet Street) and in New York by Appleton & Co., with engravings supervised by Mrs. Frederick A. Heath, the volume assembles a diverse array of writers, including Walter Savage Landor, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mrs. Shipton, Maria Norris, Nicolas Michell, and many others. It features dramatic scenes, ballads, translated fragments, and prose pieces that reflect mid-19th-century tastes for sentiment, moral instruction, and aesthetic ornament. The Keepsake offers a cross-section of contemporary literary voices, with engravings and plates complementing the text. Though published for a general audience, the works collectively illuminate the era's social mores, female authorship, and the serialized culture of Victorian print. The collection remains a representative artifact of Victorian literary culture and its appetite for elegant, morally instructive verse and prose.