Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Birth Name: Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett
Nickname: Ba
Pseudonym: EBB
Married Name: Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Browning
Used Form: E. B. Barrett
Used Form: Elizabeth B. Barrett
Used Form: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Used Form: E.B.B.
Used Form: E. B. B.
EBB
was recognized in her lifetime as one of the most important poets of mid-Victorian Britain. She wrote a significant corpus of poetry which ranges from the lyric through the closet drama or dramatic lyric and the dramatic monologue to the epic, as well as letters and criticism. For much of the twentieth century, interest in her focused on her romantic life-story, her letters, and Sonnets from the Portuguese. Late in the century, critical interest in her epic female künstlerroman or verse novel Aurora Leigh and her other political poetry—in which she took up the causes of working-class children, the abolition of slavery, women's issues, and the Italian Risorgimento—revived. She is again considered one of the leading and most influential voices of her day.
The historical Sappho
had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne
; Michael Field
's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho...
Intertextuality and Influence
Isa Blagden
To George Sand
: On Her Interview with Elizabeth Barrett Browning contrasts the two poets and their work. IB
represents Barrett Browning as a paragon of stainless femininity, Sand as a fettered maniac with a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dora Greenwell
DG
published another volume of Poems, again with her name, this one dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.
Greenwell, Dora. Poems. A. Strahan.
prelims
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Hickey
Before she was twenty EH
discovered the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Alfred Tennyson
, which inspired her to begin composing narrative poems.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 168
Intertextuality and Influence
George Douglas
These extreme events are related in a matter-of-fact style that makes them real: GD
handles well such ordinary complexities of life as mixed feelings (Jack loves Maud, but loves Lucy as well; Maud at five...
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2.
642
exemplifies...
Intertextuality and Influence
Harriet Hamilton King
The Disciples employs feminised imagery similar to that of many other female writers on the Risorgimento. Although HHK
focuses her narrative on prominent male historical figures, the sacrifices for the unification movement that she portrays...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dora Greenwell
The Athenæum reviewer was not wrong in detecting the influence of Barrett Browning
on DG
. Her first poetic tribute, a sonnet written a decade earlier than this, appears in Poems, 1861.
Greenwell, Dora. Poems. Hamilton, Adams; A. Strahan.
vi
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1749 (1861): 591
Intertextuality and Influence
Louisa May Alcott
LMA
had, in parallel with but largely before her acknowledged publications, a very successful career as an author of sensation fiction. She almost invariably wrote anonymously or used a pseudonym for these compositions, not wanting...
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Forster
Insofar as this novel tells the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
through a previously disregarded witness, it invites comparison with Woolf
's Flush. But for Forster this is a side-issue. More important is endowing...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dora Greenwell
A Story of Olden Time is a lengthy narrative poem that tells of patience and devotion rewarded. The voice of the gentle Lady Maude opens it with the classic plaint: He loves me not!
Greenwell, Dora. Poems. A. Strahan.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Mathilde Blind
The Ascent of Man gathers together a number of longer and shorter poems (written with immense energy in varying metres), but through the whole runs the theme of human life springing from a struggle for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Pamela Frankau
This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF
insisted that this character was not based on...