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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.
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| politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA
to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle |
| Author summary | Julia Wedgwood | JW
began by publishing novels, but her father opposed it. She turned to writing about social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the day. Her private letters to Robert Browning
are notable for their literary and... |
| Publishing | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
began submitting material to the New Yorker in or before 1937, against the judgement of her agent, Nancy Pearn
of Curtis Brown
, who is said to have exclaimed: Oh no dear, no, no... |
| Publishing | Olivia Manning | Abroad during the second world war, OM
continued to write and place stories, and also essays. She was for a while employed on the literary pages of the Jerusalem Post. |
| Publishing | Margaret Kennedy | She dedicated this novel to her husband
. Like its predecessor, The Fool of the Family went through stage and screen adaptations. It was first performed in 1933 with the new title: Escape Me Never... |
| Publishing | Isa Blagden | A letter from Browning
intimates that Frederic Chapman
paid her £170 for the novel as a bribe to him rather than as what it was worth. qtd. in Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden. Editor McAleer, Edward C., Greenwood Press. 288 |
| Publishing | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
's One Way of Love, A Play (its title borrowed from that of a poem by Robert Browning
) was privately printed at Edinburgh. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Isa Blagden | After IB
's death, Linda Mazini (later Villari)
collected her poems and Alfred Austin, a friend of Isa's and later Poet Laureate, agreed to edit a selection, write a short memoir, and prepare the edition... |
| Publishing | L. S. Bevington | She apparently sent a copy to Robert Browning
. Domingue, Jackie Dees. “An Unpublished Browning Letter to Louisa Sarah Bevington”. ANQ, Vol. 13 , No. 3, 2000, pp. 37-41. 38, 40n4 |
| Reception | Queen Victoria | Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands outsold many books that appeared in 1868, including Wilkie Collins
's The Moonstone, Robert Browning
's Ring and the Book, and Louisa May Alcott |
| Reception | Julia Wedgwood | The Moral Ideal was well received critically when it came out and gave JW
some literary celebrity. In the wake of its success, her novels were reprinted, this time under her own name. C. H. Herford |
| Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson
, Arnold
, Robert Browning
, Margaret Oliphant
, T. H. Huxley
, and James Russell Lowell
was formed to devise a memorial to DMC
in Tewkesbury... |
| Reception | A. Mary F. Robinson | The book was a critical success. Rumours spread that Tennyson
and Browning
had enjoyed reading it, and this made the young poet the talk of literary London. Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell, 1883. 376 |
| Reception | Augusta Webster | Portraits, a sustained feminist engagement with the form of the dramatic monologue, remains AW
's most studied work. While clearly influenced by male practitioners, Browning
in particular, her poems operate quite differently from many... |
| Reception | Vernon Lee | One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other... |
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