In 1860 AT
met a young American woman named Kate Field
. It is hard to know what she meant to him, but they conducted a romantic friendship by correspondence for the rest of his...
Leisure and Society
Isa Blagden
IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Athenæum in its obituary notice of EBB
proclaimed her the greatest of English poetesses of any time, and a proof that Genius has no sex.
qtd. in
Donaldson, Sandra. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography of the Commentary and Criticism, 1826-1990. G. K. Hall, 1993.