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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1990.
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Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
151
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, 1984–2025, 14 vols. to date.
11: 99-100
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
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, 1995.
70
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
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, 1983, pp. 32-56.
34
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, 1930.
21, 44, 50-1, 228
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 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, 1947.
7n
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Wedgwood
After meeting him in April, JW wrote her first letter to Robert Browning . This initiated an extensive correspondence which continued until 1870.
Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, 1937, p. vii - xxiii.
vii-viii
Family and Intimate relationships L. S. Bevington
More is known about LSB 's relationship with her brother, Alex (who was born on 24 June 1854). She corresponded with him, and sent him poems she had written. Scholar Jackie Dees Domingue speculates that...
Family and Intimate relationships Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen Royds and George Innes were married in Cove, Hampshire, by her brother-in-law Allan Watson .
Whether by design or coincidence, their marriage date was the same chosen in 1846 by Elizabeth Barrett and...
Education Constance Smedley
She later attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. While there she entered a competition for reciting poems by Robert Browning , and wrote to ask him for his own interpretation...
Education Jessie Fothergill
She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...
Education Millicent Garrett Fawcett
From twelve to fifteen, Millicent Garrett (later MGF ) was sent to a boarding school at Blackheath in Kent, run by a Miss [Louisa] Browning, who was an aunt of the poet Robert Browning .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
6-7, 10, 15
Education Dora Greenwell
Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
199
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
73
She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans
Education Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD received a particularly comprehensive education, though she says she acquired only a small amount of knowledge, at the hands of private instructors, all of whom were male. (Her father disliked schools for young ladies...

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