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.
From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett
to Miss Mitford
.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
xvi
The result was Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett...
Textual Production
A. Mary F. Robinson
Also in 1901, she contributed the introduction to a new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's Casa Guidi Windows.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Textual Production
Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen E. Royds
(later Innes) published Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and her Poetry, a bio-critical analysis, in William Henry Hudson
's Poetry and Life Series.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
206
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anna Swanwick
AS
declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...
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Virginia Woolf
Flush is both the life-story of a dog and the life-story, obliquely told, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Woolf accepts the version of the poet's life that was current at the time—of her as imprisoned...
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Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
59
She reviewed works by...
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Sarah Tytler
Clearly delighted with the opportunity to mix in literary circles, ST
recorded her personal observations of these authors in Men and Women Met by the Way, the final 100-page-long section of her family autobiography...
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Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
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Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
The book interweaves commentary on travel and customs with history and mythology from Scandinavia and Ireland.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
195
It contrasts the situation of English and Swedish women writers. While Swedish woman authors are celebrated (...
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Betty Miller
It dealt with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's interest in spiritualism and her relationship with the medium Daniel Home
. BM
suggests the the major reason for Browning's spiritualist interest was the death by drowning of...
Travel
Christina Rossetti
From this time onwards her health was perennially problematic, and in an effort to improve it she went on various holidays in areas deemed more salubrious than London. More than once she visited Longleat House...
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116-17
Travel
Clementina Black
While in Florence, they stayed at Casa Guidi, where the BrowningsRobert Browning
had lived twenty years earlier.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Thackerays visited Rome, Genoa, Leghorn and Pisa. Their friends in Rome included the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning
, the American sculptor William Wetmore Story
, and Adelaide (Kemble) Sartoris
(whose home rehearsals for concerts...
Travel
Michael Field
Pen was the son of the late Elizabeth
and Robert Browning
and Sarinna the sister of Robert. Always prone to ill-health, Edith came down with a fever at the start of the visit.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.