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.
ABJ
and her niece Gerardine
departed for Paris, where they encountered the BrowningsRobert Browning
, who had just eloped, and all four travelled together to Pisa.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press.
Robert Browning
expressed indignation that ABJ
's sisters were granted a pension after her death; he felt they had encumbered her unnecessarily during her lifetime.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press.
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Friends, Associates
Mabel Birchenough
At the wedding were Robert Browning
, the distinguished soldier and colonial Indian administrator Sir Lewis Pelly
, and suffragist Louisa, Lady Goldsmid
. The bridegroom's best man was imperial statesman Lord Milner, one...
Friends, Associates
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His international travel and family ties to England's literary scene ensured him a wide social circle. He knew Charles Dickens
, John Forster
, and Frances Mary Peard
. While living in Florence, he became...
RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James
(the two became extremely...
Friends, Associates
Margaret Fuller
Leaving Rome, MF
and her family stopped briefly in Rieti before settling in Florence at the end of September 1849, where they became acquainted with Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Despite a great gulf...
FMR
shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent
, Robert Browning
, William Morris
, and Oscar Wilde
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, p. xix - xxxiii.
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Friends, Associates
Emily Hickey
EH
was also personally acquainted with both Robert Browning
and his biographer Alexandra Sutherland Orr
. Though her dealings with Browning were few, towards the end of his life she found herself occasionally in the...
Friends, Associates
Camilla Crosland
CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...