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.
Again, ATR
's stay at Chateau Bréquerecque, Boulogne, in 1854 provided the basis for the novel's setting.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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She takes chapter epigraphs from a wide range of folk and literary sources, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Wordsworth
.
Intertextuality and Influence
Sappho
Elizabeth Moody
engagingly converts Sappho
into a contemporary in Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts, 1798.
Jay, Peter, and Caroline Lewis. Sappho Through English Poetry. Anvil Press Poetry.
98
But many women poets accepted the notion of her rejected love for Phaon: Robinson
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Catherine Hume
In the first section of the poem, the lord of Normiton Hall, Albert, is inspired to wed. His first choice is Maud, a woman who shares his philosophical interests. She declines however, since her faith...
Intertextuality and Influence
Pauline Johnson
Particularly in its foregrounding of religion in its attack on racial inequality, this poem seems indebted to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Gaskell
It also featured an excerpt from Book V of Barrett Browning
's recent kunstlerroman Aurora Leigh on the dreariness of women writers who sit by solitary fires / And hear the nations praising them far...
Intertextuality and Influence
Matilda Hays
That final volume features as its epigraph Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's sonnets To George Sand. A Desire and To George Sand. A Recognition.
Sand, George. The Works of George Sand. Translators Hays, Matilda et al., E. Churton.
The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson
, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and her father
. The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR
's childhood, still in the 1850s a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sappho
Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Gerard
This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine
Intertextuality and Influence
Matilda Hays
Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Its protagonist, Susanna Holcombe, is, like other ATR
characters before her, an unformed young woman of good family but no money, who grapples with her limited options in life, making what many view as a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
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...
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
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Leisure and Society
Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
delighted in owning dogs. Her greyhounds or spaniels accompanied her on the country walks which were one of her chief forms of recreation, and supplied innumerable stories for her letters. One beloved pet, Flush...