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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Publishing | Olivia Manning | Abroad during the second world war, OM
continued to write and place stories, and also essays. She was for a while employed on the literary pages of the Jerusalem Post. |
| Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | She dedicated this novel to her husband
. Like its predecessor, The Fool of the Family went through stage and screen adaptations. It was first performed in 1933 with the new title: Escape Me Never... |
| Author summary | Julia Wedgwood | JW
began by publishing novels, but her father opposed it. She turned to writing about social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the day. Her private letters to Robert Browning
are notable for their literary and... |
| 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
,... |
| politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA
to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle |
| Occupation | Michael Field | Edith was from time to time required to care for her aging parents. During the winter of 1887, she missed a visit to her beloved Robert Browning
because she had to stay at home to... |
| Occupation | Frances Horovitz | FH
read the poetry of Robert Browning
for a film, Robert Browning—His Life and Poetry, produced by Armada Productions
and the International Film Bureau
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Occupation | Marie Corelli | From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC
produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham
; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth
, Scott
, Tennyson
, and Browning
. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989. 66 |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
showed Robert Browning
some drawings by ES
of a scene from Pippa Passes, with which Rossetti reported him delighted beyond measure. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 4 vols. 1: 281 |
| Occupation | William Morris | |
| Occupation | Camilla Crosland | She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about... |
| Occupation | Emily Hickey | She remained the society's Honorary Secretary until 1884, when she was forced by ill health to retire. Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969. 12 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969. 16 |
| Occupation | Judith Man | It seems that she herself may have held some position as official attendant on the two daughters of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford
, as well as doing lessons with them. Strafford, recently ennobled by his... |
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