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.
She used her married name, C. Lenanton, for Miss Barrett
's Elopement, 1929 (about the famous Browning
courtship), and "Fair stood the Wind. . .", 1930 (one of her several novels with...
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Florence Marryat
She dedicated it to her childhood friend and fellow popular novelist Annie Thomas Cudlip
, with the famous refrain from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's lyric My Heart and I: now we are tired—My Heart...
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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.
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Margaret Forster
MF
published a biographical novel, Lady's Maid, whose protagonist, Elizabeth Wilson
, was the personal maid of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Caroline Frances Cornwallis
This book came out of CFC
's long held sentiment that the current treatment of children needed to be corrected.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co.
202, 204-5
The Ragged School Union
had been founded in 1844 to promote education for...
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Charlotte Nooth
CN
followed her poetry volume with Eglantine; or, The Family of Fortescue, an unusual novel whose dedication to Lady Shepherd
is dated 20 July.
Lady Shepherd is presumably Lady Mary Shepherd, who published philosophical...
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Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
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Anna Brownell Jameson
For this collection, ABJ
obtained from Elizabeth Barrett
two translations of lines from the Odyssey for one of the essays, The Xanthian Marbles.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
229
The collection included the essay Women's Mission and Women's Position...
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Anna Mary Howitt
She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats
and James Shirley
, to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt
, and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Percy Bysshe Shelley
, and writers in French, German, and Italian.
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Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy
, Ibsen
, and Zolarepulsive in the...
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Henry James
Although HJ
is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers...
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Janet Hamilton
Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan
pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...
She both wrote for it herself and edited the work of contributors. On acceptance of the work, she had only a month for complete preparation of the volume: to commission one piece each from six...
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Eliza Ogilvy
Decades after she had ceased to publish her own poetry, EO
wrote a memoir of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
for a new edition of Barrett Browning's Poems.
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.
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, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.