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.

Connections

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
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, pp. 32-56.
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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.
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.
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Friends, Associates Jane Ellen Harrison
Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH also met Robert Browning , Walter Pater , Henry James , and Alfred Tennyson (whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)...
Friends, Associates Jean Ingelow
JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...
Friends, Associates Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

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Browning, Robert. Strafford. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837.
Browning, Robert, and Samuel R. Gardiner. Strafford. Editor Hickey, Emily, George Bell and Sons, 1884.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984.
Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Smith, Elder, 1869.
Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Editors Collins, Thomas J. and Richard D. Altick, Broadview, 2001.