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.
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, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 602
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
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Eliza Dunlop
Nearly a decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, but following William Wordsworth
's Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman and Felicia Hemans
's The Indian Woman's Lament...
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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...
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Margaret Forster
MF
published a life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(the first in thirty years), which addresses the poet's responses to the nineteenth century's crushingly male, and her own limitingly middle-class, culture.
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, 1990.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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, 1996.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
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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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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., 1864.
202, 204-5
The Ragged School Union
had been founded in 1844 to promote education for...
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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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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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Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson
in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett
, who...
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Mary Russell Mitford
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...
Jex-Blake's essay was heavily influenced by her relationship with Dr Lucy Sewall
. By her late twenties, Sewall had established a national reputation for her work as a woman doctor. SJB
also drew on a...
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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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Mary Russell Mitford
During the same year she worked on translating Balzac
for young English readers, a scheme suggested to her by her discussions with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
about French fiction.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
