Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
Used Form: Z
RB
wrote thirty-one books of poetry (excluding numerous collected editions) and became the most influential practitioner of the dramatic monologue in the Victorian period. He also wrote literary criticism and two plays that were staged. His poetry's conversational phrasing, challenging syntax, quotidian imagery, and philosophical preoccupations respond to romanticism and anticipate modernism. He has become one of the most prominent among canonical Victorian poets.
Connections
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death | Alfred Tennyson | He was buried in Westminster Abbey on October 12, next to the grave of Robert Browning
. His estate at death was valued at £57,206 13s. 9d. |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885. 73 |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Education | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
received a particularly comprehensive education, though she says she acquired only a small amount of knowledge, at the hands of private instructors, all of whom were male. (Her father disliked schools for young ladies... |
Education | Denise Levertov | DL
never went to school, but was educated at home by her mother up to the age of twelve. She then began ballet lessons (for which she had a passion, but which caused her to... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | |
Education | Constance Smedley | She later attended King Edward VI High School for Girls
in Birmingham. While there she entered a competition for reciting poems by Robert Browning
, and wrote to ask him for his own interpretation... |
Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
Education | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | From twelve to fifteen, Millicent Garrett
(later MGF
) was sent to a boarding school at Blackheath in Kent, run by a Miss [Louisa] Browning, who was an aunt of the poet Robert Browning
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931. 6-7, 10, 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32 -56. 34 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | Ella's elder sister Edith
, who also wrote and who was a friend of Penn Browning
(son of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
), died at the age of twenty-two. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930. 21, 44, 50-1, 228 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | After a meeting in 1882, Robert Browning
noted a familial link between the Thompsons and the Barretts
. Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947. 7n |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Eleanor Trollope | Dickens
, on the other hand, though fond of both the Trollopes and the Ternans, apparently confided that he did not in the least care for Fanny, whom he judged, with evident misgivings, to be... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
and George Innes
were married in Cove, Hampshire, by her brother-in-law Allan Watson
. Whether by design or coincidence, their marriage date was the same chosen in 1846 by Elizabeth Barrett
and... |
Timeline
1 November 1907
The British Museum
's reading room reopened after being cleaned and redecorated; the dome was embellished with the names of canonical male writers, beginning with Chaucer
and ending with Browning
.