Dorothy Mermin

Standard Name: Mermin, Dorothy

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Literary responses Augusta Webster
This first poetic attempt was well received.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 333
H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
Since the 1990s, AW 's critical star has been rising rapidly. She is now regularly included in Victorian poetry anthologies and has had substantial critical articles and book chapters devoted to her by scholars including...
Literary responses Gerard Manley Hopkins
Almost all reviewers were baffled by GMH 's poetry at its first appearance, and chose to think of Bridges as indulging an eccentric personal loyalty. When the second edition was published in 1930, on the...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB 's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central...
Reception Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The first monograph feminist studies of EBB were by Helen Cooper , 1988, and Angela Leighton ,1989. Other significant studies have appeared by Deirdre David (in Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy, 1987), Glennis Stephenson (later Byron)
Textual Features Anna Brownell Jameson
One of the book's discussions centres on Joan of Arc , and sees in her life a dilemma particular to women: the price which all must pay for celebrity in some shape or other.
qtd. in
Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press, 1993.
xiv
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols.
1: 59
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB 's sonnets are deeply embedded in the developing relationship between the poet and her future husband, and refer to particular events such as their exchange of locks of hair, as well as echoing the...

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Texts

Mermin, Dorothy. “Barrett Browning’s Stories”. Browning Institute Studies, Vol.
13
, 1985, pp. 99-112.
Mermin, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press, 1993.
Mermin, Dorothy, and Herbert F. Tucker, editors. Victorian Literature 1830-1900. Harcourt College Publishers, 2002.