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.

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Leisure and Society Adelaide Kemble
In Rome AK and her husband entertained what her friend Elizabeth Barrett Browning described as the best company.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
In 1860 the painter Frederic Leighton did a striking portrait of her daughter, May .
“Frederic Leighton: Miss May Sartoris”. Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth: Collections: European.
Leisure and Society Rumer Godden
Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho , Christina Rossetti , Emily Dickinson —not Elizabeth Barrett Browning —and to the more recent Edith Sitwell and Marianne Moore .
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
218 and n
Leisure and Society Mary Russell Mitford
MRM delighted in owning dogs. Her greyhounds or spaniels accompanied her on the country walks which were one of her chief forms of recreation, and supplied innumerable stories for her letters. One beloved pet, Flush...
Leisure and Society Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin.
116
on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...
Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Farjeon
These poems of love and separation have echoes of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
British Book News. British Council.
(1959): 551
Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.) opens on the last letter which Thomas wrote to Farjeon from the...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Augusta Ward
This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
349
Mrs Browning
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Again, ATR 's stay at Chateau Bréquerecque, Boulogne, in 1854 provided the basis for the novel's setting.
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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She takes chapter epigraphs from a wide range of folk and literary sources, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Wordsworth .
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Catherine Hume
In the first section of the poem, the lord of Normiton Hall, Albert, is inspired to wed. His first choice is Maud, a woman who shares his philosophical interests. She declines however, since her faith...
Intertextuality and Influence Pauline Johnson
Particularly in its foregrounding of religion in its attack on racial inequality, this poem seems indebted to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point.
Intertextuality and Influence Germaine de Staël
After completing this novel GS wrote, I'd like a really big [writing] table, it seems to me I've got the right to it now.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
19
Corinne was enormously influential for nineteenth-century women writers. The model...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Gaskell
It also featured an excerpt from Book V of Barrett Browning 's recent kunstlerroman Aurora Leigh on the dreariness of women writers who sit by solitary fires / And hear the nations praising them far...
Intertextuality and Influence Matilda Hays
That final volume features as its epigraph Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's sonnets To George Sand. A Desire and To George Sand. A Recognition.
Sand, George. The Works of George Sand. Translators Hays, Matilda et al., E. Churton.
6: prelims
It also contains MH 's lament that the series...
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...

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