Ogilvy, Eliza, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Eliza Ogilvy. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Carola Oman | The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb
s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott
's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun
's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | William Aytoun
reviewed this volume (anonymously, according to permanent policy) in Blackwood's under the title Poetic Aberrations. Objecting that [t]o bless and not to curse is woman's function, and counselling EBB
to take her... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Ogilvy | A Book of Highland Minstrelsy established EO
's reputation as a writer. |
| Publishing | Christina Rossetti | In the four months following the end of her engagement to James Collinson
no new poems were entered in her notebook, but the broken engagement was not necessarily the cause, since there are several other... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the... |
Timeline
1845
William Edmonstoune Aytoun
and Theodore Martin
published the satirical A Book of Ballads, as edited by Bon Gaultier.
By 30 May 1854
William Edmonstoune Aytoun
published his parody of the poems of the Spasmodic school, Firmilian, in Blackwood's Magazine.