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.
Decades after she had ceased to publish her own poetry, EO
wrote a memoir of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
for a new edition of Barrett Browning's Poems.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Rosamund Marriott Watson
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was by this time establishing a name for herself as an poet. In 1890 Elizabeth A. Sharp
included three of her poems in Women Poets of the Victorian Era. The anthology also features...
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR
published Records of Tennyson
, Ruskin
, and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning
).
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Sophia Jex-Blake
Jex-Blake's essay was heavily influenced by her relationship with Dr Lucy Sewall
. By her late twenties, Sewall had established a national reputation for her work as a woman doctor. SJB
also drew on a...
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Muriel Box
MB
wrote poetry during adolescence, stopped writing it during her first marriage, and began again when that ended. She suspected that either acute stress or intense happiness was necessary for her to produce it.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin.
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Louisa Anne Meredith
On 10 September 1885 LAM
's article on children's education entitled The Cry of the Children (after a famous poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
) appeared in the Launceston Examiner. It deplored the use...
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Virginia Woolf
VW
published the complete Flush, her fictional autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's dog, with the Hogarth Press
and with Harcourt Brace
in America.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Sophia Jex-Blake
Her dedication characterizes Sewall as having demonstrated the incalculable blessings [that] may be conferred on the sick and suffering of her own sex, by a noble and pure-minded woman who is also a thoroughly scientific...
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Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925...
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Virginia Woolf
VW
conceived her book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's spaniel as a little escapade, light relief after the hard slog of writing The Waves. No doubt with memories of Sackville portraits for Orlando...
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Frances Power Cobbe
It contains much statistical and economic information, as well as considerable analysis of the complex political situation and a chapter on visitors and expatriates in Italy, including a description of FPC
's impression of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),...
AMFR
published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë
, Thackeray
, Les Browning [both Elizabeth
and Robert
], Rossetti.