Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett

There is speculation as to whether EBB knew or believed that the blood of slaves ran in her branch of the family. It certainly ran in some parts of the family, which had been one...

Biographer Julia Markus surmises that Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett came to oppose marriage for both his male and female children because of a fear that he was of mixed blood. She takes this as...

She dedicated them to her father The press run was a relatively large 1,500 copies. The volumes appeared in the United States on October 1 under the title A Drama of Exile, and Other Poems.

EBB 's father, Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett , was a Jamaican slaveholder and sugar plantation owner who had spent his early childhood in Jamaica before being sent to England for school at the age of...

On this visit her father again refused to meet her, and displayed little interest in her son Pen, when he was brought into the house with his aunt Arabella . While their encounter was brief...

EBB 's father died unreconciled to his daughter, which caused her great grief.

This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF insisted that this character was not based on...

EBB 's next ambitious project, however, fared less well. It was crushed by an unusually harsh criticism from her father , who proclaimed the broodings of your hero are the broodings of a madman—& his...

Elizabeth Barrett 's father had her classical epic poem The Battle of Marathon privately printed in fifty copies for her fourteenth birthday.

When she was nine, she received from her father a note addressed to Miss Barrett, Poet-Laureat of Hope-End, with a ten-shilling note, in response to a poetic offering in which he saw both the Germs...

Elizabeth Barrett 's family took up residence in the mansion her father built at Hope End, Herefordshire. They lived there until September 1832.

Forster seeks here to replace the traditional image of Barrett Browning as the helpless victim of one man, rescued by another, with a view which sets her at the centre of her own life and...

Elizabeth Barrett 's father was forced to sell the Hope End estate after his income was sharply diminished by the Jamaican slave rebellions, which had begun the previous December.