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.
This inheritance, along with a share in a West Indian trading vessel left to her by her uncle Sam
on his death in December 1837, gave her an economic independence from her father that her...
Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The death on 3 December 1856 of EBB
's cousin John Kenyon
(who had shared her literary interests) brought substantial legacies to both Brownings. The greater amount of his inheritance went to Robert
, and...
Wealth and Poverty
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
By the time JFLW
moved to Oakley Street, her finances were greatly reduced. A day after arriving at the new house, she asked to borrow a sovereign from Constance
. Proper household management became difficult...
Travel
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
After being secretly married the previous week, EBB
and Robert Browning
left London for their honeymoon in Paris.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton.
185-6
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
14: x
Travel
Michael Field
Pen was the son of the late Elizabeth
and Robert Browning
and Sarinna the sister of Robert. Always prone to ill-health, Edith came down with a fever at the start of the visit.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
203
Travel
Amy Levy
AL
, with Clementina Black
, stayed at Casa Guidi, Florence, once the home of Elizabeth
and Robert Browning
.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
While in Florence, they stayed at Casa Guidi, where the BrowningsRobert Browning
had lived twenty years earlier.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116
Travel
Dorothy Wellesley
Dorothy Ashton (later DW
) also spent two months in Florence (which she associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley
and Robert Browning
, while she gave no sign of having heard of the wife of either)...
Travel
Vernon Lee
VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jessie White Mario
In a review of Robert Browning
's collected letters, One Letter More From Robert (March 1899) she quotes an unpublished letter sent from Browning to Anna Jameson
, which, she argues, displays the Brownings' true...
She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought...
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2.
642
exemplifies...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The volume includes literary criticism on works by Richard Watson Dixon
and William Butler Yeats
. The memoir The Drawing-Room recalls Robert Browning
's visit to MEC
's childhood home. Recollections of Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Timeline
1 November 1907: The British Museum's reading room reopened...
Building item
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
.
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae. Chapman and Hall, 1864.
Browning, Robert. “Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, edited by James F. Loucks, W. W. Norton, 1979, p. various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, 1937, p. vii - xxiii.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii.
Ricks, Christopher et al. “Introduction”. The Brownings: Letters and Poetry, International Collectors Library, 1970, pp. 1-29.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Richard D. Altick, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 7 - 20, 629.
Browning, Robert. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ring and the Book, edited by Thomas J. Collins and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001, pp. vii - xviii; 765.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, 1991, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
Browning, Robert, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Introductory Essay”. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1852.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. Editor Browning, Robert, Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Browning, Robert. Men and Women. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Browning, Robert. “Notes”. Robert Browning, The Poems, edited by John Pettigrew et al., Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 973-1157.
Browning, Robert. Pauline. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Browning, Robert. “Porphyria”. The Monthly Repository.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed in Their Letters. Editor Curle, Richard, John Murray and Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton, 1979.
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning, The Poems. Editors Pettigrew, John and Thomas J. Collins, Yale University Press, 1981.