Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002964
Total Pages : 291 pages
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Book Synopsis Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by : Fiona Sampson

Download or read book Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Fiona Sampson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Poems

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Poems

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Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book Last Poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Publisher : Wordsworth Poetry Library
ISBN 13 : 9781840225884
Total Pages : 736 pages
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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by Wordsworth Poetry Library. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poems from one of the greatest female poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning

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Publisher : Dorset Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566198073
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by Dorset Press. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317201493
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning by : Mary Sanders Pollock

Download or read book Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning written by Mary Sanders Pollock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Drama of Exile

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Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book A Drama of Exile written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Soul's Expression

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Total Pages : 26 pages
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Poems Before Congress

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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Poems Before Congress written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226520384
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Barrett Browning by : Dorothy Mermin

Download or read book Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Dorothy Mermin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-06-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Victorian Short Stories

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Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776677951
Total Pages : 129 pages
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Download or read book Victorian Short Stories written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, attitudes about love, marriage, and gender roles began to undergo a radical shift. The five stories collected in this volume, written by literary luminaries such as Henry James, Walter Besant, and Thomas Hardy, expertly capture this period of transition.

The Poetry of Robert Browning

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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis The Poetry of Robert Browning by : Stopford Augustus Brooke

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Dared And Done

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030783297X
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Dared And Done written by Julia Markus and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

She Will Soar: Bright, brave poems about freedom by women

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Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1761262068
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book She Will Soar: Bright, brave poems about freedom by women written by Ana Sampson and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sister volume to She is Fierce this is a stunning gift book featuring 130 poems written by women. With poems from classic, well loved poets as well as innovative and bold modern voices, She Will Soar is a stunning collection and an essential addition to any bookshelf. From the ancient world right up to the present day, it includes poems on wanderlust, travel, daydreams, flights of fancy, escaping into books, tranquillity, courage, hope and resilience. From frustrated housewives to passionate activists, from servants and suffragettes to some of today’s most gifted writers, here is a bold choir of voices demanding independence and celebrating their hard-won power. Immerse yourself in poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Christina Rossetti, Stevie Smith, Sarah Crossan, Emily Dickinson, Salena Godden, Mary Jean Chan, Charly Cox, Nikita Gill, Fiona Benson, Hollie McNish and Grace Nichols to name but a few

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061860131
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life written by Mameve Medwed and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up on all that, preferring to spend her time between her cluttered "needs work" apartment and an overcrowded antiques mart optimistically named Objects of Desire. Yet Abby can't help but wonder what happened to her earlier passionate self . . . Then the Antiques Roadshow comes to town, and Abby joins thousands of Boston's hopefuls at the crack of dawn, artifact in hand. But there, among the carousel horses and bedraggled stuffed animals, Abby's rather squalid piece of porcelain gets the star treatment. And from the moment the show airs, everything changes—friendships, her career, love affairs, even the way she views herself and others—as life comes rushing back at Abby Randolph full force.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349628964
Total Pages : 173 pages
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Download or read book Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning written by NA NA and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice. Comments by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, Edmund Gosse and the Brownings themselves are included together with the reports or recollections of many less well known contemporaries. There is material on Barrett Browning's relationship with her father, her spiritualism, appearance, ambitions and convictions as a poet, and `devotion to and faith in the regeneration of Italy'; and on Browning's early friendship with Carlyle, his fraught relationship with Macready and the theatre, his love of fine clothes and society, and work habits. Some contemporary accounts construct, while others reject or qualify, familiar images of the poets: Barrett Browning as the frail, safely female recluse, for instance, or Browning as the loud and trivial talker who was so different from his poetry that for James there were simply `two Brownings'.