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.
The other poems in the collection touch on the Crystal Palace (recently moved to its permanent home in Sydenham just south of London), Emanuel Swedenborg
, and MCH
's father, Joseph Hume
.
Hume, Mary Catherine. Normiton. J. W. Parker and Son, 1857.
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Eleanor Farjeon
They are highly derivative in style (from most of the standard poetical canon including Elizabeth Barrett Browning
), though The Japanese Fan shows the whimsical lightness of EF
's mature work. This poem describes a...
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Agnes Giberne
A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty
).
Giberne, Agnes. Beside the Waters of Comfort. Sixth Edition, Seeley, 1911.
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The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
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Augusta Webster
Like much of AW
's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, as well as earlier poets such as John Keats
. Many poems here, including...
The volume also includes several poems about shipwrecks and drownings, likely a reflection of AW
's nautical childhood. The Bitter Knight, Cruel Agnes, and Edith deploy traditional refrains in ways reminiscent of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Toni Morrison
The protagonist of the novel, Sethe, is a mother bereaved by slavery, herself a slave who ran awayfrom the ironically-named Sweet Home in Kentucky to Ohio, when the institution of slavery was nearing its...
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Eliza Ogilvy
To the Poets of the New Generation addresses a generation which seems almost a throwback to the learned hermits of ancient days, who held aloof from war and suffering, and prayed in unintelligible languages. EO
VW
published the complete Flush, her fictional autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's dog, with the Hogarth Press
and with Harcourt Brace
in America.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols.
2: 245
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
160
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR
published Records of Tennyson
, Ruskin
, and Browning (which also covers Elizabeth Barrett Browning
).
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
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Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen E. Royds
(later Innes) published Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and her Poetry, a bio-critical analysis, in William Henry Hudson
's Poetry and Life Series.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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Virginia Woolf
VW
conceived her book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's spaniel as a little escapade, light relief after the hard slog of writing The Waves. No doubt with memories of Sackville portraits for Orlando...
