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.
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.
116: 196
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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, 1990.
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, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
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Queen Victoria
Initially, Victoria was unreceptive to the idea of widespread publication of her journal extracts, arguing (according to Helps in his Editor's Preface) that she had no skill whatever in authorship; that these were, for the...
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Muriel Box
MB
wrote poetry during adolescence, stopped writing it during her first marriage, and began again when that ended. She suspected that either acute stress or intense happiness was necessary for her to produce it.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974.
prelims
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Louisa Anne Meredith
On 10 September 1885 LAM
's article on children's education entitled The Cry of the Children (after a famous poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
) appeared in the Launceston Examiner. It deplored the use...
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A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR
published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë
, Thackeray
, Les Browning [both Elizabeth
and Robert
], Rossetti.
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Mary Russell Mitford
The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925...
Also in 1901, she contributed the introduction to a new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's Casa Guidi Windows.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Alice Meynell
AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),...
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Frances Power Cobbe
It contains much statistical and economic information, as well as considerable analysis of the complex political situation and a chapter on visitors and expatriates in Italy, including a description of FPC
's impression of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Virginia Woolf
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.
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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.
