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.
JW
began by publishing novels, but her father opposed it. She turned to writing about social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the day. Her private letters to Robert Browning
are notable for their literary and...
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Olivia Manning
Abroad during the second world war, OM
continued to write and place stories, and also essays. She was for a while employed on the literary pages of the Jerusalem Post.
Treglown, Jeremy. “Make use of me”. London Review of Books, pp. 21-2.
22
Her Poets in...
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Margaret Kennedy
She dedicated this novel to her husband
. Like its predecessor, The Fool of the Family went through stage and screen adaptations. It was first performed in 1933 with the new title: Escape Me Never...
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Isa Blagden
A letter from Browning
intimates that Frederic Chapman
paid her £170 for the novel as a bribe to him rather than as what it was worth.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden. Editor McAleer, Edward C., Greenwood Press.
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Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT
's One Way of Love, A Play (its title borrowed from that of a poem by Robert Browning
) was privately printed at Edinburgh.
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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Isa Blagden
After IB
's death, Linda Mazini (later Villari)
collected her poems and Alfred Austin, a friend of Isa's and later Poet Laureate, agreed to edit a selection, write a short memoir, and prepare the edition...
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L. S. Bevington
She apparently sent a copy to Robert Browning
.
Domingue, Jackie Dees. “An Unpublished Browning Letter to Louisa Sarah Bevington”. ANQ, Vol.
13
, No. 3, pp. 37-41.
38, 40n4
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Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD
began submitting material to the New Yorker in or before 1937, against the judgement of her agent, Nancy Pearn
of Curtis Brown
, who is said to have exclaimed: Oh no dear, no, no...
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Julia Wedgwood
The Moral Ideal was well received critically when it came out and gave JW
some literary celebrity. In the wake of its success, her novels were reprinted, this time under her own name. C. H. Herford
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Adelaide Procter
Critic Gill Gregory
argues that this poem is part of a series, with A Woman's Answer (a title Procter adopted from Robert Browning
) and A Woman's Last Word, in which she responds to...
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Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
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Augusta Webster
Portraits, a sustained feminist engagement with the form of the dramatic monologue, remains AW
's most studied work. While clearly influenced by male practitioners, Browning
in particular, her poems operate quite differently from many...
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Michael Field
Edith sent Browning
a copy of this book, calling it the first fruits of thought spent by a new labourer on the vine-yard of human life. If you will taste the fruit, it will not...
The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson
and Browning
had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London.
Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell.
