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
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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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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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.
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L. S. Bevington
Here LSB
moves away from the metrical experimentation and aesthetic focus of Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets, to produce poems that describe a utopian vision of ideal society destined to be cultivated through revolutionary political...
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Margaret Forster
Forster seeks here to replace the traditional image of Barrett Browning as the helpless victim of one man, rescued by another, with a view which sets her at the centre of her own life and...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This powerful evocation of a female African-American slave, who challenges her pursuers and thereby forestalls her capture moments before she dies, draws on EBB
's awareness of the Barrett family's history as Jamaican slaveholders. A...
