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.
After completing this novel GS
wrote, I'd like a really big [writing] table, it seems to me I've got the right to it now.
qtd. in
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, 2001, pp. 12-35.
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Corinne was enormously influential for nineteenth-century women writers. The model...
Intertextuality and Influence
Louisa May Alcott
LMA
had, in parallel with but largely before her acknowledged publications, a very successful career as an author of sensation fiction. She almost invariably wrote anonymously or used a pseudonym for these compositions, not wanting...
Intertextuality and Influence
Adrienne Rich
In Culture and Anarchy (titled after the famous essay collection by Matthew Arnold
, 1869 ), Rich mixes her own poetry with the words of nineteenth-century Anglo-American women writers Jane Addams
, Susan B. Anthony
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Forster
Insofar as this novel tells the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
through a previously disregarded witness, it invites comparison with Woolf
's Flush. But for Forster this is a side-issue. More important is endowing...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christina Rossetti
In poems such as Love From the North, Noble Sisters, Maude Clare, and Sister Maude, at least two of which were written in the late 1850s, CR
displays an interest, perhaps...
Armgart is a poignant delineation of the conflict for the nineteenth-century woman artist between ambition and conventional femininity, and indeed constitutes a response to Barrett Browning
's Aurora Leigh. Its protagonist, an ambitious and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mathilde Blind
The Ascent of Man gathers together a number of longer and shorter poems (written with immense energy in varying metres), but through the whole runs the theme of human life springing from a struggle for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Pamela Frankau
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christina Rossetti
The poem's epigraph alludes to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's L.E.L.'s Last Question.
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols.
1: 153
It strongly evokes the contrast between the speaker's social exterior, symbolised by the rustling show
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols.
1: 154
of female finery...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rosa Nouchette Carey
One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dinah Mulock Craik
The plot is thin for the three-volume length required by the Victorian publishing industry.
It concerns the initially young and naive Agatha, an heiress of Anglo-Indian background who marries Nathanael Harper, her trustee's younger...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Catherine Hume
In the first section of the poem, the lord of Normiton Hall, Albert, is inspired to wed. His first choice is Maud, a woman who shares his philosophical interests. She declines however, since her faith...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jessie White Mario
She often closed her lectures by reading from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's Casa Guidi Windows.
O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
