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.
Although written not in blank verse but in pentameter with an alternating rhyme scheme, EJP
's poem (whose topicality might well qualify it as a verse novel or a female bildungsroman) is heavily indebted to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sara Coleridge
Phantasmion is a bildungsroman set in a fictional, somewhat oriental land, is packed with supernatural machinery
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
95
and with adventure. The substantial and detailed narrative follows a young aristocratic boy from youth to adulthood, emphasizing...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jean Ingelow
The work's title poem is a lengthy epic retelling of the story of Noah's ark from the Bible. Scholar Terence Allan Hoagwood
likens it to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's A Drama of Exile and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michael Field
Her choice of pen name was probably inspired by the island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde and by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's extremely popular verse novel Aurora Leigh.
Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman.
208
The original minnesinger...
Intertextuality and Influence
Germaine de Staël
After completing this novel GS
wrote, I'd like a really big [writing] table, it seems to me I've got the right to it now.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
19
Corinne was enormously influential for nineteenth-century women writers. The model...
Intertextuality and Influence
Katharine Bruce Glasier
KBG
took her title from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's poem of the same name. KBG
's pamphlet details the abuses poor, working-class children face owing to the proliferation of home industries such as belt-making, box-making...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Augusta Ward
This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
349
Mrs Browning
Intertextuality and Influence
George Douglas
People in Cherry Garth think Denis strange and unladylike; Celia dissembles her jealousy, but does not forgive; Denis's only sympathiser is the Jewish farmer Octave Von Donop, a close friend of Tom's and another avowed...
Intertextuality and Influence
Isa Blagden
The final line invokes Wordsworth
's The Female Vagrant, andIB
also echoes Thomas Hood
's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jessie White Mario
She often closed her lectures by reading from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's Casa Guidi Windows.
O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press.
100
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
This novel retells The Husband of a Blue, a story by ESP
's mother, Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps
, from the perspective of Avis Dobell, a wife, mother, and would-be artist who sacrifices her...
Intertextuality and Influence
George Douglas
These extreme events are related in a matter-of-fact style that makes them real: GD
handles well such ordinary complexities of life as mixed feelings (Jack loves Maud, but loves Lucy as well; Maud at five...
Intertextuality and Influence
Isa Blagden
To George Sand
: On Her Interview with Elizabeth Barrett Browning contrasts the two poets and their work. IB
represents Barrett Browning as a paragon of stainless femininity, Sand as a fettered maniac with a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS
is remembered above all as having contributed substantially with Uncle Tom's Cabin to the build-up of anti-slavery feeling in the North before the Civil War. The sense of her influence is encapsulated in the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dora Greenwell
DG
published another volume of Poems, again with her name, this one dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.