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.
JW
's correspondence with Robert Browning
is remarkably free and explicit about her emotional involvement with him: I prefer the scorn which falls on those who say too much, to the price . ....
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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...
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...
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Rosamund Marriott Watson
In addition to reviews, RMW
contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley
who had died...
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Carol Rumens
Her title comes from the opinion (propounded in the closing sequence, On the Spectrum) that people characterized by varying degrees and kinds of what is popularly called autism have a particular affinity with animals...
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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...
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Kate Greenaway
Throughout the 1880s KG
illustrated many little books by well-known authors. In 1883 she provided illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems, a collection by the early nineteenth-century children's writers Ann (later Gilbert)
and...
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Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
CADS
published the final novel in her feminist Some Wives trilogy, Mrs. Noakes, An Ordinary Woman.
The protagonist's name reflects the use (in legal texts, as well as by such writers as Robert Browning
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Carol Ann Duffy
The title of CAD
's poetry volume Rapture alludes to a well-known poem by Robert Browning
and implies the recreation or imaginative re-possession of past ecstasies.
Staying at Pisa with her new husband
, EBB
sent her dramatic monologue The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point to James Russell Lowell
; it appeared next year in the Boston abolitionist gift-book The Liberty...
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Beatrice Harraden
BH
published Spring Shall Plant, a novel about the troubled eleven-year-old Patuffa and the effects of music upon her. The title comes from a text by Robert Browning
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Colles, Hester Janet. “Spring Shall Plant”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 975, p. 614.
Some time after Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund appeared, MF
's correspondent Robert Browning
probably let it slip to the Athenæum that the author was a woman.
Fletcher, Robert P. “’ I leave the page half-writ’: Narrative Discoherence in Michael Field’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Underneath the Bough</span>”;. Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, Macmillan, pp. 164-82.
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He did not, however, reveal the women's joint identity...