Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Robert Browning
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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.
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...
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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
Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2.
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exemplifies...
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Michael Field
Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, John Ruskin
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Elizabeth Jenkins
Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ
's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria
and Samuel Carter Hall
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In the year the second world war broke out, 1939, DW
published a novel, A Handful of Silver (titled from Robert Browning
's The Lost Leader, a poem about the treachery of a charismatic...
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Jean Plaidy
She adapted her title from Robert Browning
's Last Ride Together, which has we for they. She decided to use a pseudonym for this entirely different kind of book, because she really didn't...
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Lesley Storm
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's early novels appeared in quick succession after this first publication. In the next two years she published Head in the Wind (1928) and Small Rain (1929). Between 1931 and 1933, she published five...
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Doreen Wallace
DW
told a journalist during the 1970s that she had published under the name of Mary Crossley. This author name appears in library catalogues of the period for only one novel, titled (from a...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She did not show the poems to Browning
until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets...
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Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem's first part was inspired by events on the night of 12 September 1847, EBB
's first wedding anniversary. From Casa Guidi she and Robert Browning
watched political demonstrations in celebration of Grand Duke Leopoldo II
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Isa Blagden
Smith, Elder and Co.
of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope
helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning
may have similarly persuaded publishers to...
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Evelyn Waugh
The novel's title is that of a poem by Robert Browning
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A. S. Byatt
She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge
scholar, Kathleen Coburn
, and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...
