Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Author : Fiona Sampson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324002963

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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 “An elegant act of rehabilitation.”—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A "nuanced and insightful" (New Statesman) portrait of Britain’s most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is an electrifying study in self-invention. Born in 1806, Barrett Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university, own property after marriage, or vote. And yet she seized control of her private income, defied chronic illness and disability, became an advocate for the revolutionary Italy to which she eloped, and changed the course of cultural history. Her late-in-life verse novel masterpiece, Aurora Leigh, reveals both the brilliance and originality of her mind, as well as the challenges of being a woman writer in the Victorian era. A feminist icon, high-profile activist for the abolition of slavery, and international literary superstar, Barrett Browning inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. Two-Way Mirror is the first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades. With unique access to the poet’s abundant correspondence, “astute, thoughtful, and wide-ranging guide” (Times [UK]) Fiona Sampson holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself.

Author : Rebecca Stott,Simon Avery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317877035

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Rebecca Stott,Simon Avery Pdf

This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age. The authors present a biographical survey, study of her poetry, its critical reception and an assessment of her influence on later poets. This book also examines the complex 'myths' which are associated with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and offers re-readings of her life and work, particularly in dispelling the myth of the ailing invalid poet-recluse and instead showing her to be one of the great intellectuals of her day, immersed in European history and politics from a very early age. The book situates Browning within broader historical,political and cultural contexts than have yet been examined enabling a better understanding of her poetry and paints the portrait of a fine and innovative poet, an intellectual and an astute political thinker.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015063942711

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Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWILFW

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Last Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446443514

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster Pdf

This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life from her early childhood and adolescence and explores her marriage. She draws a picture of early Victorian family life and aims to show that Elizabeth was a considerable and dedicated poet, self-willed, witty and courageous. Forster has also edited the companion volume "Selected Poems" of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and is author of several other biographies.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026918629

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Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

Author : Julia Markus
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307832979

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Dared And Done by Julia Markus Pdf

A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified. We enter their story through the sealed Victorian world of the Barretts of Wimpole Street: Elizabeth, at thirty-nine, a poet of international fame, a child prodigy who had grown to be a middle-aged spinster, a woman for whom romantic love seemed not to be possible, confined by illness, morphine, and the tyranny of her father, scion of rich Jamaican slaveholders, rum and sugar traders. It is to this fortress that Robert Browning, already an admired young poet and playwright, already a devotee of Elizabeth's, lays siege. ("I love your verses," he had written Elizabeth in his first letter to her, long before they met. "I love your verses with all my heart -- and I love you too.") And miraculously Elizabeth let life in. Julia Markus chronicles their extraordinary courtship, their marriage in secret (Browning to Elizabeth: "How you have dared and done all this ... for my only sake?"), and their radiant honeymoon in Italy. Markus shows us how the political events of the times inspired the great dramatic monologues of Robert's middle years and how Italy's stormy reunification inspired Elizabeth's later work. We come to see Elizabeth as an artist with a fierce and final confidence in poetry and its effect on the poets' lives. We see husband and wife celebrate the birth of their son, Robert Wiedemann "Pen" Barrett Browning (Browning to her sisters: "I sate by [Elizabeth] as much as I was allowed, and I shall never forget what I saw, tho' I cannot speak about it"). We see them among their artist/writer friends: in London with Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, and others; in Rome with William Story, the American lawyer, poet, sculptor; with Harriet Hosmer, the stonecutter, who was one of the models for Aurora Leigh; with Charlotte Cushman, the American actress, who held readings of Elizabeth's novel in verse. We see Elizabeth in Paris meeting her heroine George Sand, whose society of socialists and theatrical types Robert described as "ragged Red." We come to understand Elizabeth's dependence on the ever-present drug in her life ("I should not be alive except by help of my morphine") and her constant battle with depression. And we see Elizabeth, encouraged by a woman with whom she was infatuated, move from interest to obsession with spiritualism, a cause that became the only source of serious dissension between the Brownings. We follow the course of their rich marriage, from the beginning when each saw the other as a brilliant poet, a compassionate and strangely similar heart, through the years in which they discovered each other's differences, each remaining a complex and thrilling human being to the other. To tell their story, Markus for the first time makes use of much of Elizabeth's unpublished correspondence, amid a wealth of other documents. She delves fully into the Brownings' Creole background and shows how it affected their lives and their work (Elizabeth was the first of the Jamaican Barretts to be born in England in many generations). Brilliantly interweaving the Brownings' own words with her authentic and perceptive narrative, Julia Markus brings these two great poets -- their marriage, their work, their times -- alive as never before.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Robert Browning
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781620873663

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The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Robert Browning Pdf

This collection features the romantic correspondence between the two of the most prominent and prolific Victorian poets who married in secret and escaped to a life together in Italy where their son, Pen, was born.

Author : Dorothy Mermin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226520382

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Dorothy Mermin Pdf

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was the first major woman poet in the English literary tradition. Her significance has been obscured in this century by her erasure from most literary histories and her exclusion from academic anthologies. Dorothy Mermin's critical and biographical study argues for Barrett Browning's originative role in both the Victorian poetic tradition and the development of women's literature. Barrett Browning's place at the wellhead of a new female tradition remains the single most important fact about her in terms of literary history, and it was central to her self-consciousness as a poet. Mermin's study shows that Barrett Browning's anomalous situation was constantly present to her imagination and that questions of gender shaped almost everything she wrote. Mermin argues that Barrett Browning's poetry covertly inspects and dismantles the barriers set in her path by gender and that in her major works—Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, her best political poems, "A Musical Instrument"—difficulty is turned into triumph, incorporating the author's femininity, her situation as a woman poet, and her increasingly substantial fame. Mermin skillfully interweaves biography and close readings of the poems to show precisely how Barrett Browning's life as a woman writer is a part of the essential meaning of her art. Both her personal and her literary achievements are exceptionally well documented, especially for her formative years. Mermin makes extensive use of the poet's early essays, a diary covering most of her twenty-sixth year, and the enormous number of letters that have survived. Ranging from her earliest ambitions through her long periods of discouragement and illness to her happy married life with Robert Browning, this comprehensive study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is essential reading for students of the Victorian period, English literature, and women's studies.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Sally Minogue
Publisher : Wordsworth Poetry Library
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1840225882

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The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Sally Minogue Pdf

A selection of poems from one of the greatest female poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Benjamin Robert Haydon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674465865

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Invisible Friends by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Benjamin Robert Haydon Pdf

Browning and Haydon never met, but their lively conversation, initiated in 1842, continued unabated until 1845, about a year before the painter's suicide. It was a lopsided correspondence in which 94 letters written by Haydon, most of which have not been published before, received fewer replies from Barrett, 28 of which are included here.

Author : Mary Sanders Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317201489

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Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning by Mary Sanders Pollock Pdf

First published in 2003, this book examines the creative partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and provides a critical analysis of the poems written by this famous couple during the 16 year period of their friendship, courtship and marriage. Even quite early in their relationship, the Brownings shared a frame of reference: similar themes, narrative structures, and details of phrasing resonate in their works and suggest dialogue, rather than merely mutual influence. Pollock traces parallels between the Brownings' lives and works even before they met, and then throughout their courtship and married life, suggesting that their creative dialogue continued after Barrett Browning died in 1861, as her presence and themes continued to inform Browning's poetry for at least a decade afterward.

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWILKR

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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : English poetry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924012962993

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Poems Before Congress by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39076002884828

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The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Battle of Marathon (1820); An essay on mind, with other poems (1826); from Prometheus Bound, and Miscellaneous Poems (1833); from The seraphim and other poems (1838); Poems before Congress (1860); Other previously published prose and poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pdf

A canonical Victorian writer and thinker, Barrett Browning personified the engaged intellectual. This edition provides a foundation for a complete analysis and interpretation of her works - and of Victorian Britain. The edition presents accurate and accessible texts of all her published literary works.