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.
This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
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Mrs Browning
Intertextuality and Influence
Germaine de Staël
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
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...
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
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.
In Rome AK
and her husband entertained what her friend Elizabeth Barrett Browning
described as the best company.
qtd. in
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.
In 1860 the painter Frederic Leighton
did a striking portrait of her daughter, May
.
“Frederic Leighton: Miss May Sartoris”. Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth: Collections: European.
Leisure and Society
Isa Blagden
IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Leisure and Society
Mary Boyle
MB
was an avid reader. Her favourite authors included Walter Landor
, with whom she exchanged frequent letters, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and most especially, her literary godfather, G. P. R. James
.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
