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.

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Residence Freya Stark
Robert Stark had loved Asolo since his student days in Rome, when he was shown the town by Pen Browning , the son of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning . Robert and Flora's close friend,...
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.
Torquay at the time of their arrival was...
Textual Features Emily Dickinson
She began practising literary techniques in letters written to friends and family at this time. Evidence of a dialogic, corresponding voice permeates her poetry, resulting in what Archibald MacLeish reads as one of the central...
Textual Features Anne Mozley
Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser , Cowley . . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and Miss Barrett .
Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx.
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Textual Features Eliza Ogilvy
The earliest poems in the volume return to the experience of losing a child. A Remembrance, the opening poem, applies to this a most unexpected image. A ship grounds offshore, and seems about to...
Textual Features Agnes Giberne
A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty ).
Giberne, Agnes. Beside the Waters of Comfort. Seeley.
prelims
The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
Textual Features Isa Blagden
Cordelia outlines her reasons for living in Italy: :I love best to be an English woman, but I should like, for many reasons, to live in Italy. Physically, the climate suits me; materially, the...
Textual Features Anna Kingsford
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...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features Emma Caroline Wood
The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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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