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.
Agnes Tremorne is a fairly sentimental novel of art, misfortune, and romance set in Rome during the struggle for Italian independence in the 1830s. Agnes Tremorne—the novel's heroine and protagonist—is both a devoted nurse to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Augusta Webster
She dropped her pseudonym at this point in her career.
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
63
These poems show the obvious influence of Robert Browning
. The poem most admired by reviewers was the eerie The Snow Waste; indeed...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Taylor
Robert Browning
's poem Rephan, he acknowledged, was suggested by Taylor's story entitled How It Strikes a Stranger.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons.
172 and n1
In Rephan a speaker born on the perfect, changeless planet of this...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Flower Adams
Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA
was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe
.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Apparently the hymn was inspired by Adams' friend Robert Browning
's early religious doubts...
Intertextuality and Influence
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
The title phrase opens one of the best-known poems by scholar and poet Francis William Bourdillon
. GHS
quotes a stanza from it, along with other, more canonical poets from Ovid
through Milton
and Wordsworth
Intertextuality and Influence
Isa Blagden
A Model and a Wife has a principal cast of three: John Herbert, a solitary English painter living in Rome in ill health; Nell Spencer, a young English heiress (once an abandoned orphan in India...
Intertextuality and Influence
Isa Blagden
The final line invokes Wordsworth
's The Female Vagrant, andIB
also echoes Thomas Hood
's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...
Intertextuality and Influence
Theodora Benson
Robert Browning
's poem to Emily Patmore
, the original angel in the house, is quoted at the head of the first chapter. Unlike TB
's first novel, this is a romance with a consummated...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson
, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and her father
. The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR
's childhood, still in the 1850s a...
Thoroughly plugged into the Victorian and Edwardian literary establishments, she used her influence to aid others, such as the American poet Virginia Vaughan
, whose philosophical poem New Era she helped to get reviewed.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
Some of her contributions are related (sometimes ironically or satirically related) to women's issues and the New Woman: Great Marriage Insurance Scheme, How Women Can Easily Make Provision for their Old Age...
Intertextuality and Influence
Matilda Hays
Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used...
Intertextuality and Influence
Felicia Hemans
Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L.
Intertextuality and Influence
Emily Faithfull
The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF
had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of...