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.
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'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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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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Evelyn Waugh
The novel's title is that of a poem by Robert Browning
.
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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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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...
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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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
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
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.
The first-person narrator, Philip Ashley, falls in love with the mysteriousRachel, widow of the cousin whose death he had set out to avenge. Indirectly, he causes Rachel's death.The novel is set in the nineteenth century...
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L. S. Bevington
Here LSB
moves away from the metrical experimentation and aesthetic focus of Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets, to produce poems that describe a utopian vision of ideal society destined to be cultivated through revolutionary political...
