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 volume opens with the title piece, River Reeds, a simple poem about nature which compares the gifts of the poet to a river reed: however lowly and mean, both offer melodies tender and...
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Augusta Webster
Like much of AW
's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, as well as earlier poets such as John Keats
. Many poems here, including...
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Annie S. Swan
The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan
and...
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Augusta Webster
The volume also includes several poems about shipwrecks and drownings, likely a reflection of AW
's nautical childhood. The Bitter Knight, Cruel Agnes, and Edith deploy traditional refrains in ways reminiscent of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Christina Rossetti
Influences that manifested themselves somewhat later in CR
's career were those of fairy tales—Perrault
, Keightley
, and later Hans Christian Andersen
—and later poets including Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, whom...
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Julia Kristeva
Again Stéphanie Delacourt and Northrop Rilsky, held tightly under the control of a third-person narrator, address themselves to mystery-solving. JK
quotes Delacourt, who revels in neologisms, taking as her motto Je me voyage (I travel...
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Sarah Stickney Ellis
In a poem that can be seen as belonging to the emerging genre of the verse novel, SSE
takes up the question of the role of poetry in industrialised society, in conjunction with the theme...
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Christina Fraser-Tytler
The book is divided by topic (confession, detachment from the world, guidance in perplexity, union with Christ, etc.). Included are only a few selections from women authors, namely Madame Guyon
, Christina Rossetti
, Caroline Matilda of Denmark
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Violet Fane
Young, innocent, and orphaned Constance Leigh (almost certainly named in salute to Barrett Browning
's influential verse novel Aurora Leigh
Hoagwood, Terence Allan et al. “Introduction”. Denzil Place, Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 3-11.
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) is married to old, ultra-Tory
Fane, Violet. Denzil Place. Chapman and Hall.
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Sir John. Although her husband is kind...
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Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
here mixed personal gossip, local scene-painting, criticism, and extracts.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
Such verse would now be called political, in that it challenges accepted power structures. CR
also produced such poems as A Royal Princess (in which the daughter of a repressive king goes down to face...
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Eleanor Farjeon
They are highly derivative in style (from most of the standard poetical canon including Elizabeth Barrett Browning
), though The Japanese Fan shows the whimsical lightness of EF
's mature work. This poem describes a...
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Bessie Rayner Parkes
In a similar vein she writes To Elizabeth Barrett Browning, . . . I use no words Of any careful beauty, being plain As earnestness, and quiet as that Truth Which shrinks from any...
Residence
Frances Mary Peard
The 1881 census lists them in Tormoham (a part of Torquay): FMP
's mother was listed as the householder, and Frances Mary was listed as without occupation.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
