Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Features | 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... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | The novel's title is that of a poem by Robert Browning
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | She dropped her pseudonym at this point in her career. |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Dramatic Studies as a whole was acclaimed by reviewers. A reviewer in the Westminster Review of October 1866 wrote that Mrs. Webster shows not only originality, but what is nearly as rare, trained intellect and... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The play was a critical but notThe Athenæum's review criticized AW
for borrowing too heavily for her style from Sir Henry Taylor
and Robert Browning
:The result of this over-fidelity to her model... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | 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... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The Athenæum reviewer was not convinced the volume merited publication, pronouncing that the essays stand condemned. Light articles meant to be read and forgotten are not worth republishing in a permanent form, and it is... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of... |
| 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 |
| 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, p. vii - xxiii. vii-viii |
| 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... |
| Residence | Julia Wedgwood | JW
met Robert Browning
at a dinner party at her parents' home at 1 Cumberland Place, Regent's Park, where she still lived. 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, p. vii - xxiii. 3n1 Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista. 276 |
| Health | Julia Wedgwood | Throughout 1867, JW
suffered from depression, which ran in the family. (The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that much of her time was taken up in caring for family invalids and hypochondriacs and other... |
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