Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Forster
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1806-1861
- Setting: England, France, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Flush, Robert Wiedemann (Pen) Browning, Edward barrett Moulton- barrett, Mary graham-clarke Barrett, Edward Barrett, Henrietta Barrett, Hugh Boyd, Richard Henry Horne, Elizabeth Wilson Romagnoli, John Kenyon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Literature, Abandoned children, Poetry or poets, Writing, Novelists, Feminism, Letters, Career women, Victorian era or Victorianism, Dual-career family
- Locales: France, England, Italy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry rarely receives the same critical attention given that of her husband Robert. The fourth edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature (1979) devotes two pages to her work, eighty-five to his. The 1986 edition of the New Oxford Anthology of Victorian Verse includes only four of her poems and an excerpt from Aurora Leigh (1856). Seventy-six years passed between the 1902 edition of this title, often considered Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s masterpiece, and its next reprinting.
Her work was not always slighted thus....
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