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.
May Sinclair
thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
191
She also enjoyed the high Victorian melodrama of Mew's reading aloud.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
192
Despite her efforts to bring The Farmer's...
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Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
A friend of her father's, impressed by her work, sent the poem to Robert Browning
, who responded with a generous and encouraging letter. He criticized her failure to achieve originality, and told her to...
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Augusta Webster
The play was a critical but notThe Athenæum's review criticized AW
for borrowing too heavily for her style from Sir Henry Taylor
and Robert Browning
:The result of this over-fidelity to her model...
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Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
The Dictionary of Literary Biography called Bitter HerbsCADS
's most complex and best volume of poetry.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The reviewer in the New York Times praised her for having the dramatic succinctness of Browning
...
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Augusta Webster
The Athenæum reviewer was not convinced the volume merited publication, pronouncing that the essays stand condemned. Light articles meant to be read and forgotten are not worth republishing in a permanent form, and it is...
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Augusta Webster
In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of...
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Michael Field
Robert Browning
responded to the fair copy of Long Ago, making few suggestions but counselling the excision of a relatively explicit poem that was indeed omitted. He declined to write a preface for this...
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Ouida
Critic Kenneth Churchill
argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
43: 376
with the practical outcomes of the new state established in Italy by the Risorgimento. She...
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L. S. Bevington
Unlike LSB
's first volume of poetry, this achieved some success in literary circles while it was largely ignored by the scientific community.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press.
9: 228
The Academy comprehensively panned it, terming it flatulent trash...
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press.
235
and he serialised Mabel's Progress in 1867 in All The Year Round.
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. HarperCollins.
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Isa Blagden
insinuated in a letter to Robert Browning
Leisure and Society
Mary Boyle
MB
was an avid reader. Her favourite authors included Walter Landor
, with whom she exchanged frequent letters, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and most especially, her literary godfather, G. P. R. James
.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray.
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Isa Blagden
IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
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Emily Hickey
EH
was a frequent participant in amateur dramatic readings. She often read the works of Robert Browning
. Shakespeare
, perhaps owing to her childhood deprivation, was also a particular favourite. She was praised as...
ABJ
attended (with Robert Browning
) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle
on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the...