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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Residence Freya Stark
Robert Stark had loved Asolo since his student days in Rome, when he was shown the town by Pen Browning , the son of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning . Robert and Flora's close friend,...
Residence Mary Russell Mitford
The first period of poverty after his marriage caused him to move his family from Alresford in Hampshire. (MRM later remembered the Hampshire countryside with warm affection, and delighted in its nearness to...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features Christina Fraser-Tytler
The book is divided by topic (confession, detachment from the world, guidance in perplexity, union with Christ, etc.). Included are only a few selections from women authors, namely Madame Guyon , Christina Rossetti , Caroline Matilda of Denmark
Textual Features Violet Fane
Young, innocent, and orphaned Constance Leigh (almost certainly named in salute to Barrett Browning 's influential verse novel Aurora Leigh
Hoagwood, Terence Allan et al. “Introduction”. Denzil Place, Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 3-11.
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) is married to old, ultra-Tory
Fane, Violet. Denzil Place. Chapman and Hall.
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Sir John. Although her husband is kind...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM here mixed personal gossip, local scene-painting, criticism, and extracts.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
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She recorded stories of her wide circle, including Felicia Hemans , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Harriet Martineau , Mary Anne Browne (later Gray) ...
Textual Features Christina Rossetti
Such verse would now be called political, in that it challenges accepted power structures. CR also produced such poems as A Royal Princess (in which the daughter of a repressive king goes down to face...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features Bessie Rayner Parkes
In a similar vein she writes To Elizabeth Barrett Browning, . . . I use no words
Of any careful beauty, being plain
As earnestness, and quiet as that Truth
Which shrinks from any...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Her authors run from Jane Austen and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Martineau . Elizabeth Fry , Mary Carpenter , and Florence Nightingale represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville science, and...
Textual Features Mary Catherine Hume
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.
prelims
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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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