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.
Private Enterprise was followed by Love Among the Ruins, 1948 (a title borrowed from Robert Browning
), The Old Bank House, 1949, and The Duke's Daughter, 1951. The draft of Love Among...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With Elizabeth Barrett
's reply to an epistolary overture by Robert Browning
, one of the greatest exchanges of love letters in English got underway.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
10: 18, xii
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Carola Oman
She used her married name, C. Lenanton, for Miss Barrett
's Elopement, 1929 (about the famous Browning
courtship), and "Fair stood the Wind. . .", 1930 (one of her several novels with...
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Michael Field
Printing of the book was limited to one hundred copies. (Robert Browning
received no. 2.) It was beautifully bound in vellum and printed in two ink colours: MF
's poems in black and Sappho
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Alice Meynell
AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB
's posthumous Last Poems, as collected by Robert Browning
, were published.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
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Lucille Iremonger
LI
published another fictionalised biography, this time of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. It was entitled (from Elizabeth's famous poem) How Do I Love Thee.
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.
Once more the titles provoke curiosity. They include Venice, Now and Then, Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be (opening line of a poem by Robert Browning
), Yellow...
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Marjorie Bowen
MB
recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson
's Idylls of the King, Wilde
's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott
, and Richardson
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Betty Miller
Betty Spiro (later BM
) published her first novel, The Mere Living (titled from a line from Robert Browning
).
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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Miller, Betty. The Mere Living. Victor Gollancz.
prelims
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Norah Lofts
In this text she examines the stories of Sarah and Hagar, Deborah and Jael, Delilah, Jezebel, and Esther, among others. Lofts takes as her epigraph a line from Robert Browning
's A Toccata of Galuppi's...
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Betty Miller
BM
published her life of Robert Browning
, in the event her last biography.
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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Jenkins
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/.
