Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf, 1995.
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | There is speculation as to whether EBB
knew or believed that the blood of slaves ran in her branch of the family. It certainly ran in some parts of the family, which had been one... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Biographer Julia Markus
surmises that Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett
came to oppose marriage for both his male and female children because of a fear that he was of mixed blood. Markus, Julia. Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Knopf, 1995. 106 |
Dedications | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | She dedicated them to her father
The press run was a relatively large 1,500 copies. The volumes appeared in the United States on October 1 under the title A Drama of Exile, and Other Poems. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000. 50 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's father
died unreconciled to his daughter, which caused her great grief. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 321 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's father, Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett
, was a Jamaican slaveholder and sugar plantation owner who had spent his early childhood in Jamaica before being sent to England for school at the age of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | On this visit her father
again refused to meet her, and displayed little interest in her son Pen, when he was brought into the house with his aunt Arabella
. While their encounter was brief... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pamela Frankau | This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF
insisted that this character was not based on... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's next ambitious project, however, fared less well. It was crushed by an unusually harsh criticism from her father
, who proclaimed the broodings of your hero are the broodings of a madman—& his... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
's father
had her classical epic poem The Battle of Marathon privately printed in fifty copies for her fourteenth birthday. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols. 1: xlv Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957. 11 |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | When she was nine, she received from her father
a note addressed to Miss Barrett, Poet-Laureat of Hope-End, with a ten-shilling note, in response to a poetic offering in which he saw both the Germs... |
Residence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
's family took up residence in the mansion her father
built at Hope End, Herefordshire. They lived there until September 1832. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 9-10 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | Forster seeks here to replace the traditional image of Barrett Browning as the helpless victim of one man, rescued by another, with a view which sets her at the centre of her own life and... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
's father
was forced to sell the Hope End estate after his income was sharply diminished by the Jamaican slave rebellions, which had begun the previous December. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 65-6, 68 Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957. 35-6 |
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