Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Birth Name: Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett
Nickname: Ba
Pseudonym: EBB
Married Name: Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Browning
Used Form: E. B. Barrett
Used Form: Elizabeth B. Barrett
Used Form: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Used Form: E.B.B.
Used Form: E. B. B.
EBB
was recognized in her lifetime as one of the most important poets of mid-Victorian Britain. She wrote a significant corpus of poetry which ranges from the lyric through the closet drama or dramatic lyric and the dramatic monologue to the epic, as well as letters and criticism. For much of the twentieth century, interest in her focused on her romantic life-story, her letters, and Sonnets from the Portuguese. Late in the century, critical interest in her epic female künstlerroman or verse novel Aurora Leigh and her other political poetry—in which she took up the causes of working-class children, the abolition of slavery, women's issues, and the Italian Risorgimento—revived. She is again considered one of the leading and most influential voices of her day.
Richard Hengist Horne
published A New Spirit of the Age, with contributions from a number of authors including Elizabeth Barrett
and RB
(who had yet to meet).
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley, Ronald Hudson, and Scott Lewis, Wedgestone Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
8: xii
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
379-80
Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974.
132
Cultural formation
Robert Browning
RB
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
participated in a séance with D. D. Home
.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
47
death
Julia Pardoe
In her later years JP
had endured a great deal of mockery. Samuel Carter Hall
noted in his Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance that she was...
Her funeral procession (which passed Casa Guidi dressed in celebration of Barrett Browning
's centenary) included a handful of surviving Garibaldians, one hundred schoolgirls carrying roses, and a group of university professors.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
115
She was...
death
Jessie Ellen Cadell
She was buried, says Richard Garnett, in the cemetery
which holds the remains of Mrs. Browning
and Landor
and Theodore Parker
and so many other gifted men and women of English race.
Garnett, Richard, Omar Khayyám, and Omar Khayyám. “Introduction”. The Ruba’yat of Omar Khayam, edited by Richard Garnett, translated by. Jessie Ellen Cadell, John Lane, 1899, p. v - xxx.
xii
An article...
Dedications
Robert Browning
It was dedicated to the memory of his wife
, with the apostrophe: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird.
Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Collins, Thomas J. and Richard D. AltickEditors , Broadview, 2001.
57
Volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1868; the final volume, number 4...
Dedications
Harriet Martineau
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
denied that she was the unnamed invalid to whom the book was dedicated; according to HM
many readers instantly detected the identity of the author.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Kelley, Philip, Ronald Hudson, and Scott LewisEditors , Wedgestone Press, 1984.
8: xii
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983.
2: 171
Dedications
Dinah Mulock Craik
The Head of the Family is dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, whom DMC
designates the good influence of my life although not a personal friend.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Head of the Family. Chapman and Hall, 1878.
dedication
The New York edition was a single volume...
Education
L. M. Montgomery
LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her...
Education
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Her family's financial troubles prevented EJP
from receiving a formal or thorough education. In her own words, education was not within the reach of the gently born who were also poor, therefore I had little...
Education
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The only daughter in a family of boys, ESP
credited her father
for her intellectual development: He was my climate. As soon as I began to think, I began to reverence thought and study and...
Education
Emily Hickey
She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by...
Education
Toru Dutt
TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French.
Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972.
After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick
Education
Mrs Alexander
Encouraged to read widely, MA
was educated at home by governesses. Years later she said that having no playmates as a child, she steeped herself in books, mostly poetry. This was the best education I...
One of the best-known poems of John Skelton
, The Bowge of Courte, probably dates from this season. It was printed by Wynkyn de Worde
the following year.
27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the Baptist
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg
's work The Principia was published in London; this form of spiritualism soon became popular in elite intellectual circles.
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry Patmore
's poemThe Angel in the House, was published.
1861
A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...
1868
Emily Taylor
(1795-18), who is remembered for books connected with her school-teaching career, published Memories of some Contemporary Poets, with Selections from their Writings, with a good representation of women among her subjects (from...