Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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wrote thirty-one books of poetry (excluding numerous collected editions) and became the most influential practitioner of the dramatic monologue in the Victorian period. He also wrote literary criticism and two plays that were staged. His poetry's conversational phrasing, challenging syntax, quotidian imagery, and philosophical preoccupations respond to romanticism and anticipate modernism. He has become one of the most prominent among canonical Victorian poets.
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | In Italy GC
met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood
, Caroline Norton
's elder sister. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 26 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 37 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | MH
's friendship with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
came to an end; her biography blames this on the mutual coldness of their respective husbands. Robert Browning
was alienated on hearing stories that William took surreptitious notes... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | While in Rome, MO
met Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 31 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's connections from home gave her introductions into the circles of US and British women living in Italy, including Harriet Hosmer
(who became a close friend). She met Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Friends of VH
's family included John Ruskin
, Edward Burne-Jones
, John Millais
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Robert Browning
, and Christina Rossetti
, who read Violet's early poems. VH
also met and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | MS
met Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Robert Browning
in Florence, and was in turn visited by Longfellow
. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 226 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | While in Paris, she met Madame von Mohl
(wife of Orientalist Julius von Mohl
, Chair of Persian at the Collège de France
); William Rathbone Greg
; Fanny Kemble
; Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | At a dinner party, ES
met Lady Augusta Ward
, Robert Browning
, Arthur Stanley
(Dean of Westminster), and William Vernon Harcourt
, among other prominent people. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. 182 |
Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
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