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.
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Robert Browning
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Standard Name: Browning, Robert
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RB
wrote thirty-one books of poetry (excluding numerous collected editions) and became the most influential practitioner of the dramatic monologue in the Victorian period. He also wrote literary criticism and two plays that were staged. His poetry's conversational phrasing, challenging syntax, quotidian imagery, and philosophical preoccupations respond to romanticism and anticipate modernism. He has become one of the most prominent among canonical Victorian poets.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
| Friends, Associates | Mabel Birchenough | At the wedding were Robert Browning
, the distinguished soldier and colonial Indian administrator Sir Lewis Pelly
, and suffragist Louisa, Lady Goldsmid
. The bridegroom's best man was imperial statesman Lord Milner
, one... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | VF
made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning
, Algernon Swinburne
, Alexander William Kinglake
, Alfred Austin
, the Duchess of Argyll
, James McNeil Whistler
, and Lillie Langtry |
| Friends, Associates | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton | His international travel and family ties to England's literary scene ensured him a wide social circle. He knew Charles Dickens
, John Forster
, and Frances Mary Peard
. While living in Florence, he became... |
| Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Isa Blagden | |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Leaving Rome, MF
and her family stopped briefly in Rieti before settling in Florence at the end of September 1849, where they became acquainted with Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Despite a great gulf... |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
| Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Hickey | EH
was also personally acquainted with both Robert Browning
and his biographer Alexandra Sutherland Orr
. Though her dealings with Browning were few, towards the end of his life she found herself occasionally in the... |
| Friends, Associates | Isa Blagden | IB
and the Brownings became very close friends. In a letter to Isa, Elizabeth wrote: I miss you and love you. How perfect you are to me always . . . . qtd. in Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. xii , 1943, pp. 446-63. 454 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | At a dinner party, ES
met Lady Augusta Ward
, Robert Browning
, Arthur Stanley
(Dean of Westminster), and William Vernon Harcourt
, among other prominent people. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907. 182 |
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