EBB
's only son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning
, nicknamed Penini or Pen, was born following the only one of her five pregnancies to come to term.
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
222
Family and Intimate relationships
Robert Browning
After Elizabeth suffered through several miscarriages, she and Robert had one son, Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning
.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Family and Intimate relationships
Ella Hepworth Dixon
Ella's elder sister Edith
, who also wrote and who was a friend of Penn Browning
(son of Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
), died at the age of twenty-two.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930.
21, 44, 50-1, 228
Family and Intimate relationships
Eliza Ogilvy
EO
's and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's special relationship was centred around Eliza
's children, who were important to both the origin and continuation of the friendship.
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.
xxii
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
300
Elizabeth's only child, Robert Wiedemann
...
Friends, Associates
Isa Blagden
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
had a valuable friend in IB
, who nursed Elizabeth in Florence until her death on 29 June 1861, and continued afterwards to help in the upbringing of the Brownings' son, Pen
.
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.
Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii.
xxiv
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,...