Robert Browning

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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Dinah Mulock Craik
George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm .
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
15
The marriage apparently proved happy. The...
Family and Intimate relationships A. Mary F. Robinson
They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France (in succession to Ernest Renan
Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...
Family and Intimate relationships Coventry Patmore
Emily, who was noted in literary and artistic circles for intelligence and beauty, was the subject of works by Thomas Woolner and John Everett Millais , and inspired Robert Browning 's poem A Face...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning wrote a letter to Elizabeth Barrett , effusively praising her poetry.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
143
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
10: xii
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning paid his first visit to Elizabeth Barrett in Wimpole Street.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
150
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
151
Family and Intimate relationships Adelaide Procter
AP 's mother, born Anne Skepper , was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett agreed to marry Robert Browning .
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
11: 99-100
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
159-60
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett secretly married Robert Browning at St Marylebone Church, London.
Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf.
70
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
180
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 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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke.
73
She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans
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
To educate herself further, she read widely, setting herself literary exercises, writing verse imitating or dramatising Chaucer , Spenser , and Browning . However, she writes that at that time, I had read no really...
Education Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L.

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