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.
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
Intertextuality and Influence
Ella D'Arcy
It reverses the traditional story of a male philanderer rejected by a pure-minded woman. Lulie Thayer, an American girl, pursues, loves, and drops every man she meets. She is an adventuress . . . but...
politics
Emily Davies
ED
's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning
, George Grote
, Thomas Huxley
,...
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
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Education
Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD
received a particularly comprehensive education, though she says she acquired only a small amount of knowledge, at the hands of private instructors, all of whom were male. (Her father disliked schools for young ladies...
The first-person narrator, Philip Ashley, falls in love with the mysteriousRachel, widow of the cousin whose death he had set out to avenge. Indirectly, he causes Rachel's death.The novel is set in the nineteenth century...
Textual Production
Carol Ann Duffy
The title of CAD
's poetry volume Rapture alludes to a well-known poem by Robert Browning
and implies the recreation or imaginative re-possession of past ecstasies.
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...
Literary responses
George Eliot
Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE
The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF
had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...
