“What shall I do to please my Queen” Lady Jane Maria Strachey Strachey, Jane Maria Blue Jay Illustrator Sophia May Bowley Bowley, May Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project Victoria, BC, Canada

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 Poet attribution: Blue Jay is the pseudonym of Jane Maria Strachey. (AC) Atalanta 5 52 224 What shall I do to please my Queen Corrected and proofed figure and figDesc. Added figure, figDesc, and keywords. Re-organized change elements in descending date order. Removed catRef with target="dvpp:illustrationNone", now obsolete.
A man lies on the bottom of the ocean with his arms behind his head. He is either asleep or dead. A mermaid lies on top of him and embraces his chest. Aquatic life surrounds them, including plants, urchin, and an eel. This portion of the illustration is contained within a single-ruled circular border. Additional aquatic life extends horizontally from the circular border, including seaweed, a fish, and a seahorse. There are also waves behind the border. 1/4 page.