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
Literary responses Eliza Ogilvy
One critic felt that Mrs. Ogilvy is among those who have listened too long and too submissively to Tennyson and the BrowningsRobert Browning .
qtd. in
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Literary responses Julia Ward Howe
Many critics praised the poems' raw emotional power. Ednah Dow Cheney , the only female reviewer, commented on their galvanic effect on the reader, and likened Howe to Robert Browning .
Williams, Gary. Hungry Heart. U Massachusetts Press, 1999.
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New York...
Literary responses Charlotte Mew
May Sinclair thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty.
qtd. in
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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She also enjoyed the high Victorian melodrama of Mew's reading aloud.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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Despite her efforts to bring The Farmer's...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
Again letters of appreciation poured in, though several people confessedly wrote without, or before, studying the text at all carefully. Robert Browning wrote, Yours has been a wonderful undertaking.
qtd. in
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
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Professor Paley praised the ease...
Literary Setting Linda Villari
In Change Unchanged is another of LV 's novels with a plethora of landscape description and hints of the autobiographical. Throughout the life journey of its protagonist, Edith Henderson, which includes the seclusion and loneliness...
Occupation Marie Corelli
From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti showed Robert Browning some drawings by ES of a scene from Pippa Passes, with which Rossetti reported him delighted beyond measure.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 4 vols.
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Occupation William Morris
While still at Oxford , WM began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning 's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...
Occupation Camilla Crosland
She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about...
Occupation Emily Hickey
She remained the society's Honorary Secretary until 1884, when she was forced by ill health to retire.
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969.
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She is said to have been a woman of considerable business acumen.
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969.
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According to her...
Occupation Judith Man
It seems that she herself may have held some position as official attendant on the two daughters of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford , as well as doing lessons with them. Strafford, recently ennobled by his...
Occupation Michael Field
Edith was from time to time required to care for her aging parents. During the winter of 1887, she missed a visit to her beloved Robert Browning because she had to stay at home to...
Occupation Frances Horovitz
FH read the poetry of Robert Browning for a film, Robert Browning—His Life and Poetry, produced by Armada Productions and the International Film Bureau .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle

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