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.
The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson
, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and her father
. The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR
's childhood, still in the 1850s a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Thoroughly plugged into the Victorian and Edwardian literary establishments, she used her influence to aid others, such as the American poet Virginia Vaughan
, whose philosophical poem New Era she helped to get reviewed.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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
Family and Intimate relationships
Adelaide Procter
AP
's mother, born Anne Skepper
, was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble
considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies...
Reception
Adelaide Procter
Critic Gill Gregory
argues that this poem is part of a series, with A Woman's Answer (a title Procter adopted from Robert Browning
) and A Woman's Last Word, in which she responds to...
Literary responses
Ezra Pound
Monroe
later added, I can't pretend to be much pleased at the course his verse is taking. A hint from Browning
at his most recondite, and erudition in seventeen languages.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
She adapted her title from Robert Browning
's Last Ride Together, which has we for they. She decided to use a pseudonym for this entirely different kind of book, because she really didn't...
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning
's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in...
Family and Intimate relationships
Coventry Patmore
Emily, who was noted in literary and artistic circles for intelligence and beauty, was the subject of works by Thomas Woolner
and John Everett Millais
, and inspired Robert Browning
's poem A Face...
BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,...
Publishing
Mollie Panter-Downes
MPD
began submitting material to the New Yorker in or before 1937, against the judgement of her agent, Nancy Pearn
of Curtis Brown
, who is said to have exclaimed: Oh no dear, no, no...