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.
MBL
began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice
and Wilfrid Meynell
from May 1883 to...
Textual Production
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...
Textual Production
Penelope Lively
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...
DL
never went to school, but was educated at home by her mother up to the age of twelve. She then began ballet lessons (for which she had a passion, but which caused her to...
Reception
Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
Literary responses
Vernon Lee
Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning
, assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June...
Travel
Vernon Lee
VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning
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...
Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ
's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria
and Samuel Carter Hall
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
