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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Her literary connections expanded further with the publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems. Dora Greenwell
approached her effusively by letter and Lewis Carroll
was keen to photograph her and her family. In 1865... |
| Friends, Associates | Isa Blagden | IB
and the Brownings became very close friends. In a letter to Isa, Elizabeth wrote: I miss you and love you. How perfect you are to me always . . . . |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
adored Rome, and she and her daughters were much sought after there. They met there Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(although their visit with the poets was not a success). Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 423-5 |
| Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | During an earlier visit to Italy in the summer of 1853, FK
's social circle had included Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and her former acquaintance Harriet Hosmer
. She met the young Anne Thackeray
in Rome. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 156 Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 227 |
| Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | While visiting Italy, JWM
stayed with Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
in Rome, beginning... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
| Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw |
| Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Robert Browning
dated his first of many letters addressed to Edith Cooper
and Katharine Harris Bradley
, who were soon to publish together as MF
. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 1 |
| Friends, Associates | John Ruskin | JR
's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Violet Hunt
, Jean Ingelow
, Flora Shaw
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Thomas Carlyle |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | 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 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Katharine
and Edith Cooper
shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater
, Oscar Wilde
, Arthur Symons
, Charles Shannon
, Sarianna Browning
, Thomas Sturge Moore |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau
. While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice. Skabarnicki, Anne M. “Two Faces of Eve: The Literary Personae of Harriet Martineau and Jane Welsh Carlyle”. The Carlyle Annual, Vol. 11 , pp. 15-30. 20 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
also knew Charles Dickens
, Thomas Carlyle
, and the Brownings
—she admired Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(whom she had met for half an hour) as so interesting a woman. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 299 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 89-100 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 225, 257 |
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