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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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 Augusta Webster
Reviews were in general not very good; at least one reviewer liked Lota best..
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.
102, 119
A Saturday Review critic praised Webster's analytic power of sufficient originality,
Webster, Augusta. “Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews”. Portraits and Other Poems, edited by Christine Sutphin, Broadview, 2000, pp. 403-23.
410
while the Leader (beginning a trend) praised...
Literary responses Harriet Hamilton King
Eric Robertson in English Poetesses, 1883, suggested that HHK 's writings excelled those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the same topic in their truth and spontaneity.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 198
In the entry on HHK in...
Literary responses Dora Greenwell
The Athenæum reviewer predicted a career of continued success for DG : her present is full of promise, her future full of hope. . . . Let her only get more experience into fewer words...
Literary responses George Sand
Other British women writers also found their admiration mingled with disapprobation. Elizabeth Barrett read GS eagerly and recognised her importance, but reflected the opinion of many in often finding the writing inappropriate for a woman...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
HM was highly regarded by many other women writers of her day. Elizabeth Barrett Browning pronounced her the most manlike woman in the three kingdoms (that is, in England, Scotland, and Ireland)...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
The Athenæum declared the play would strengthen AW 's reputation as a dramatist, calling the dialogue intellectual and subtle.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2878 (1882): 841
But although the review conceded that Webster has not strangled poetic art...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
The first Dictionary of National Biography praised AW 's abilities as a poet and claimed a lasting place for her in the English poetic tradition, but by 1914 Watts-Dunton was complaining about her exclusion from...
Literary Setting Linda Villari
In Change Unchanged is another of LV 's novels with a plethora of landscape description and hints of the autobiographical. Throughout the life journey of its protagonist, Edith Henderson, which includes the seclusion and loneliness...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
Rossetti also reported that Browning wished to meet ES , but that he did so only briefly and that Elizabeth Barrett Browning was not well enough to call.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 4 vols.
1: 281
Occupation Camilla Crosland
She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about...
Occupation Frances Trollope
Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante 's Infernal Regions.Hervieu painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers , created the figures.
Hiram Powers later became a celebrated sculptor...
Occupation Eliza Fenwick
It now seems that EF was not the Mrs Fenwick who was running an admirable school at Flint House, Greenwich, just outside London, from at least the later 1780s well into the 1790s...
Occupation Richard Hengist Horne
Educated at Sandhurst , RHH started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Edgar Allan Poe . He also adapted plays...
Occupation Richard Hengist Horne
Reports such as Horne's also provided writers of protest literature such as Benjamin Disraeli , Charles Dickens , and Elizabeth Gaskell with material which they incorporated into their fiction. Elizabeth Barrett 's The Cry of...

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