Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
Used Form: Z
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.
Whether by design or coincidence, their marriage date was the same chosen in 1846 by Elizabeth Barrett
and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Eleanor Trollope
In 1867, the year after their marriage, FET
and her husband separated for a while. They publicly said little of their troubles; they may have had disagreements over the scandal surrounding Ellen Ternan
and Charles Dickens
Family and Intimate relationships
Julia Wedgwood
After meeting him in April, JW
wrote her first letter to Robert Browning
. This initiated an extensive correspondence which continued until 1870.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, p. vii - xxiii.
vii-viii
Family and Intimate relationships
Una Troubridge
Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dinah Mulock Craik
George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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The marriage apparently proved happy. The...
Family and Intimate relationships
A. Mary F. Robinson
They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France
(in succession to Ernest Renan
Family and Intimate relationships
Coventry Patmore
Emily, who was noted in literary and artistic circles for intelligence and beauty, was the subject of works by Thomas Woolner
and John Everett Millais
, and inspired Robert Browning
's poem A Face...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
wrote a letter to Elizabeth Barrett
, effusively praising her poetry.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
143
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
10: xii
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
paid his first visit to Elizabeth Barrett
in Wimpole Street.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
150
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
11: 99-100
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
159-60
Family and Intimate relationships
Adelaide Procter
AP
's mother, born Anne Skepper
, was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble
considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
secretly married Robert Browning
at St Marylebone Church, London.
Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf.
70
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
In the summer of 1849, the Ogilvys moved into an apartment above that of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
in Casa Guidi, Florence.
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
xiv
The families became good friends; according to Barrett Browning, quick...
Friends, Associates
Sarah Flower Adams
As her father
established himself socially and politically within the Dalston community, she became involved in London's literary and intellectual circles. Among those she met, William James Linton
, John Stuart Mill
, and...
