Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
She was also a prolific letter writer from a young age, and her early letters evince a linguistic confidence and liveliness of style that formed the foundation for a life-time of rich intellectual, social, and...
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Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925...
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Emily Hickey
With the collaboration of Robert Browning
, EH
produced a new edition of his Strafford
, An Historical Tragedy, supplying notes and a preface.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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.
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May Crommelin
MC
quickly followed this with a second romance, My Love She's But a Lassie, Hurst and Blackett
, 1875, published by the author of Queenie, with Simon Wastell quoted on the title-page and...
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A. Mary F. Robinson
In 1922 AMFR
signed the introduction to another volume written in French, Poèmes de Robert Browning, with her married name as Mary Duclaux .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Doreen Wallace
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
LS
'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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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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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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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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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...
