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.
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...
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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...
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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
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),...
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. Seeley.
prelims
The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...
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Emily Dickinson
She began practising literary techniques in letters written to friends and family at this time. Evidence of a dialogic, corresponding voice permeates her poetry, resulting in what Archibald MacLeish
reads as one of the central...
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Anne Mozley
Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser
, Cowley
. . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes
and Miss Barrett
.
Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx.
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Eliza Ogilvy
The earliest poems in the volume return to the experience of losing a child. A Remembrance, the opening poem, applies to this a most unexpected image. A ship grounds offshore, and seems about to...
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Isa Blagden
Cordelia outlines her reasons for living in Italy: :I love best to be an English woman, but I should like, for many reasons, to live in Italy. Physically, the climate suits me; materially, the...
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Anna Kingsford
The volume opens with the title piece, River Reeds, a simple poem about nature which compares the gifts of the poet to a river reed: however lowly and mean, both offer melodies tender and...
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Christina Rossetti
Influences that manifested themselves somewhat later in CR
's career were those of fairy tales—Perrault
, Keightley
, and later Hans Christian Andersen
—and later poets including Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, whom...
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Julia Kristeva
Again Stéphanie Delacourt and Northrop Rilsky, held tightly under the control of a third-person narrator, address themselves to mystery-solving. JK
quotes Delacourt, who revels in neologisms, taking as her motto Je me voyage (I travel...
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Sarah Stickney Ellis
In a poem that can be seen as belonging to the emerging genre of the verse novel, SSE
takes up the question of the role of poetry in industrialised society, in conjunction with the theme...