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.
From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett
to Miss Mitford
.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
xvi
The result was Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett...
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Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
was by this time establishing a name for herself as an poet. In 1890 Elizabeth A. Sharp
included three of her poems in Women Poets of the Victorian Era. The anthology also features...
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A. Mary F. Robinson
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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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.
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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.
2: 245
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Sarah Flower Adams
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.
3: 602
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
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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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Lucille Iremonger
LI
published another fictionalised biography, this time of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. It was entitled (from Elizabeth's famous poem) How Do I Love Thee.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Carola Oman
She used her married name, C. Lenanton, for Miss Barrett
's Elopement, 1929 (about the famous Browning
courtship), and "Fair stood the Wind. . .", 1930 (one of her several novels with...
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Florence Marryat
She dedicated it to her childhood friend and fellow popular novelist Annie Thomas Cudlip
, with the famous refrain from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's lyric My Heart and I: now we are tired—My Heart...
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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.
202, 204-5
The Ragged School Union
had been founded in 1844 to promote education for...
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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...
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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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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.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...