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.
From this time onwards her health was perennially problematic, and in an effort to improve it she went on various holidays in areas deemed more salubrious than London. More than once she visited Longleat House...
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116-17
Travel
Clementina Black
While in Florence, they stayed at Casa Guidi, where the BrowningsRobert Browning
had lived twenty years earlier.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
116
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The Thackerays visited Rome, Genoa, Leghorn and Pisa. Their friends in Rome included the BrowningsElizabeth Barrett Browning
, the American sculptor William Wetmore Story
, and Adelaide (Kemble) Sartoris
(whose home rehearsals for concerts...
Travel
Michael Field
Pen was the son of the late Elizabeth
and Robert Browning
and Sarinna the sister of Robert. Always prone to ill-health, Edith came down with a fever at the start of the visit.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
203
Travel
Carola Oman
When Carola was twelve she was taken on her first foreign holiday, to France. Germany followed in 1912, and Italy (which made her feel like Elizabeth Barrett Browning) in 1913.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.
120, 170
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
The book interweaves commentary on travel and customs with history and mythology from Scandinavia and Ireland.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
195
It contrasts the situation of English and Swedish women writers. While Swedish woman authors are celebrated (...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anna Swanwick
AS
declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Virginia Woolf
Flush is both the life-story of a dog and the life-story, obliquely told, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Woolf accepts the version of the poet's life that was current at the time—of her as imprisoned...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett
's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
59
She reviewed works by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Tytler
Clearly delighted with the opportunity to mix in literary circles, ST
recorded her personal observations of these authors in Men and Women Met by the Way, the final 100-page-long section of her family autobiography...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Betty Miller
It dealt with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's interest in spiritualism and her relationship with the medium Daniel Home
. BM
suggests the the major reason for Browning's spiritualist interest was the death by drowning of...
Textual Production
Sarah Flower Adams
SFA
also wrote notices for the Westminster Review. In December 1844, as S. F. A., she contributed a review of Elizabeth Barrett
's Poems.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
3: 602
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Textual Production
Eliza Dunlop
Nearly a decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, but following William Wordsworth
's Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman and Felicia Hemans
's The Indian Woman's Lament...
Timeline
1495: In a bonfire of the vanities in Florence,...
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,...
National or international item
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...
20 March 1839: The Anti-Corn Law League was founded....
11 October 1845: A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg's...
Building item
11 October 1845
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.
19 November 1845: Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other...
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
National or international item
14 March 1856
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.
16 April 1860: King Victor Emmanuel II made his triumphal...
By 20 October 1860: Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry...
Writing climate item
By 20 October 1860
Faithful for Ever, the third part of Coventry Patmore
's poemThe Angel in the House, was published.
1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
1886: Eva Hope's Queens of Literature of the Victorian...
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems. James Duncan.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Chapman and Hall, 1857.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Editor Reynolds, Margaret, Ohio University Press, 1992.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, and Cora Kaplan. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. Women’s Press, 1978.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Casa Guidi Windows. Chapman and Hall, 1851.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Critical Introductions”. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, AMS Press, 1973, p. Various pages.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Diary by E.B.B. Editors Kelley, Philip and Ronald Hudson, Ohio University Press, 1969.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Editorial Materials”. Casa Guidi Windows, edited by Julia Markus, Browning Institute, 1977, p. Various pages.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford. Editor Miller, Betty, John Murray, 1954.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
12
, pp. 11-12.
Meynell, Alice, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Introduction”. Prometheus Bound and Other Poems, Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1896, p. v - xv.
Ricks, Christopher et al. “Introduction”. The Brownings: Letters and Poetry, International Collectors Library, 1970, pp. 1-29.
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.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. Editor Browning, Robert, Chapman and Hall, 1862.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, and Richard Hengist Horne. Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, addressed to Richard Hengist Horne. Editor Mayer, S. R. Townshend, R. Bentley, 1877.
Ogilvy, Eliza, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Memoir”. The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frederick Warne, 1893.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Note”. Aurora Leigh, Smith, Elder, 1898, p. vii - xiv.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. Edward Moxon, 1844.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems Before Congress. Chapman and Hall, 1860.
Æschylus,. Prometheus Bound. Translator Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, A. J. Valpy, 1833.
Ogilvy, Eliza, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Recollections”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon et al., Quadrangle, 1973, p. xxv - xxxv.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. Poems, New ed., Chapman and Hall, 1850.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Battle of Marathon. Printed for W. Lindsell, 1820.