Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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RB
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.
She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought...
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The volume includes literary criticism on works by Richard Watson Dixon
and William Butler Yeats
. The memoir The Drawing-Room recalls Robert Browning
's visit to MEC
's childhood home. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2.
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Michael Field
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, John Ruskin
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice
and Wilfrid Meynell
from May 1883 to...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She was also a prolific letter writer from a young age, and her early letters evince a linguistic confidence and liveliness of style that formed the foundation for a life-time of rich intellectual, social, and...
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May Crommelin
MC
quickly followed this with a second romance, My Love She's But a Lassie, Hurst and Blackett
, 1875, published by the author of Queenie, with Simon Wastell quoted on the title-page and...
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A. Mary F. Robinson
In 1922 AMFR
signed the introduction to another volume written in French, Poèmes de Robert Browning, with her married name as Mary Duclaux .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925...
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Emily Hickey
With the collaboration of Robert Browning
, EH
produced a new edition of his Strafford
, An Historical Tragedy, supplying notes and a preface.
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Doreen Wallace
In the year the second world war broke out, 1939, DW
published a novel, A Handful of Silver (titled from Robert Browning
's The Lost Leader, a poem about the treachery of a charismatic...
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Jean Plaidy
She adapted her title from Robert Browning
's Last Ride Together, which has we for they. She decided to use a pseudonym for this entirely different kind of book, because she really didn't...
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Lesley Storm
LS
's early novels appeared in quick succession after this first publication. In the next two years she published Head in the Wind (1928) and Small Rain (1929). Between 1931 and 1933, she published five...
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Doreen Wallace
DW
told a journalist during the 1970s that she had published under the name of Mary Crossley. This author name appears in library catalogues of the period for only one novel, titled (from a...
