Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Browning
-
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.
Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ
's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria
and Samuel Carter Hall
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, 9–15 June 1989, pp. 241-2.
642
exemplifies...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
59
She reviewed works by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Augusta Webster
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...
Textual Production
Isa Blagden
Smith, Elder and Co.
of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope
helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning
may have similarly persuaded publishers to...
Textual Production
A. S. Byatt
She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge
scholar, Kathleen Coburn
, and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...
Textual Production
Evelyn Waugh
The novel's title is that of a poem by Robert Browning
.
Textual Production
Kate Greenaway
Throughout the 1880s KG
illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert)
and...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Staying at Pisa with her new husband
, EBB
sent her dramatic monologue The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point to James Russell Lowell
; it appeared next year in the Boston abolitionist gift-book The Liberty...
Textual Production
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...
Textual Production
Beatrice Harraden
BH
published Spring Shall Plant, a novel about the troubled eleven-year-old Patuffa and the effects of music upon her. The title comes from a text by Robert Browning
.
Colles, Hester Janet. “Spring Shall Plant”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 975, 23 Sept. 1920, p. 614.
The title of CAD
's poetry volume Rapture alludes to a well-known poem by Robert Browning
and implies the recreation or imaginative re-possession of past ecstasies.
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...
Textual Production
Michael Field
Some time after Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund appeared, MF
's correspondent Robert Browning
probably let it slip to the Athenæum that the author was a woman.
Fletcher, Robert P. “ I leave the page half-writ: Narrative Discoherence in Michael Fields Underneath the BoughWomens Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 164-82.
166
He did not, however, reveal the women's joint identity...
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose. Editor Day, Aidan, Routledge, 1991.
Browning, Robert, and Samuel R. Gardiner. Strafford. Editor Hickey, Emily, George Bell and Sons, 1884.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984, 14 vols. to date.
Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Smith, Elder, 1869, 4 vols.
Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Editors Collins, Thomas J. and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001.
