Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Betty Spiro (later BM
) published her first novel, The Mere Living (titled from a line from Robert Browning
).
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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Miller, Betty. The Mere Living. Victor Gollancz.
prelims
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Lucille Iremonger
LI
published another fictionalised biography, this time of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. It was entitled (from Elizabeth's famous poem) How Do I Love Thee.
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Once more the titles provoke curiosity. They include Venice, Now and Then, Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be (opening line of a poem by Robert Browning
), Yellow...
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Betty Miller
BM
published her life of Robert Browning
, in the event her last biography.
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Norah Lofts
In this text she examines the stories of Sarah and Hagar, Deborah and Jael, Delilah, Jezebel, and Esther, among others. Lofts takes as her epigraph a line from Robert Browning
's A Toccata of Galuppi's...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice
and Wilfrid Meynell
from May 1883 to...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She was also a prolific letter writer from a young age, and her early letters evince a linguistic confidence and liveliness of style that formed the foundation for a life-time of rich intellectual, social, and...
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Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925...
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Emily Hickey
With the collaboration of Robert Browning
, EH
produced a new edition of his Strafford
, An Historical Tragedy, supplying notes and a preface.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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May Crommelin
MC
quickly followed this with a second romance, My Love She's But a Lassie, Hurst and Blackett
, 1875, published by the author of Queenie, with Simon Wastell quoted on the title-page and...
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A. Mary F. Robinson
In 1922 AMFR
signed the introduction to another volume written in French, Poèmes de Robert Browning, with her married name as Mary Duclaux .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Catherine Fanshawe
One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before...
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Constance Naden
The first section contains mostly dramatic monologues which embody dilemmas of balancing love and ambition, intellect and emotion. Their language is simple but fairly formal, and their characters, if not specifically connected with some historical...
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E. Nesbit
In calling most of her mature poems dramatic monologues (and invoking the name of Robert Browning
) EN
claims that they do not give an unmediated version of her own experience, though she admits to...