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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards.
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Literary responses
Augusta Webster
The play was a critical but notThe Athenæum's review criticized AW
for borrowing too heavily for her style from Sir Henry Taylor
and Robert Browning
:The result of this over-fidelity to her model...
Literary responses
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
A friend of her father's, impressed by her work, sent the poem to Robert Browning
, who responded with a generous and encouraging letter. He criticized her failure to achieve originality, and told her to...
Literary Setting
Linda Villari
In Change Unchanged is another of LV
's novels with a plethora of landscape description and hints of the autobiographical. Throughout the life journey of its protagonist, Edith Henderson, which includes the seclusion and loneliness...
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...
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
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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.
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Occupation
William Morris
While still at Oxford
, WM
began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning
's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...
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.
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She is said to have been a woman of considerable business acumen.
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press.
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According to her...
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
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...
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...
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
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
,...
