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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Dinah Mulock Craik
Mary Russell Mitford supposed from reading this book that its author was Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(9 March 1872): 298
She may, however, have been building on another's opinion, for the Athenæum reviewer found abundant...
Literary responses Jessie White Mario
After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct.
qtd. in
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
75
When her thoughts turned to the Italian struggle, her brilliant eyes flashed like...
Literary responses Mary Howitt
The Improvisatore was much admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Literary responses Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
The April 1865Dublin Review said the collection recalls . . . the awful state of the country—the corpses that were buried without coffins, and the men and women that walked the roads more like...
Literary responses Julia Pardoe
This book was praised by Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kadar credits Pardoe and Catherine Gore as the first British writers to observe the modern form of nationalism that was emerging in Hungary in the mid-nineteenth...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
The London Review was very positive, considering the writing the genuine utterance of a richly imaginative mind and of a very high order.
qtd. in
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
28
The Spectator talked about CR 's genius and artistic discrimination. Other...
Literary responses Ouida
Critic Kenneth Churchill argues that Ouida was the first English writer to chronicle the sense of growing disillusion
qtd. in
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research, 1978–2024, Numerous volumes.
43: 376
with the practical outcomes of the new state established in Italy by the Risorgimento. She...
Literary responses Una Marson
A review in the Jamaica Times described UM as a fine talent
qtd. in
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
41
and likened one of her sonnets, Vows, to those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
41
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth clan.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
122
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford discussed it in an exchange of letters. While Mitford thought...
Literary responses Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village was praised by Christopher North (John Wilson) , Felicia Hemans , Elizabeth Barrett (who called Mitford here a sort of prose Crabbe in the sun
qtd. in
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
and Harriet Martineau . MRM was especially gratified...
Literary responses Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The book was reviewed by Louis Untermeyer in the Dial. The American Review of Reviews propagated the opinion that these sonnets would take their place beside Mrs. Browning 's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'because...
Literary responses Caroline Norton
The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton...
Literary responses Amelia Opie
AO 's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly notes that when they were new they commanded among the...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 281
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...

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