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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
A selective list of online literary criticism for the nineteenth-century Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with links to reliable biographical and introductory material and signed, peer-reviewed, and scholarly literary criticism.
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Introduction & Literary Criticism
"Elizabeth Barrett Browning." The Victorian Web. Ed. George P. Landow. Essays on EBB's style, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A brief introduction from educational publisher Gale.
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "I Hear America Singing," PBS. Introduction to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and audio of singers performing their poems.
Pollock, Mary. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning." On Aurora Leigh. Literary Encyclopedia 4 July 2003. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to EBB, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription.
Mermin, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry (U of Chicago P 1989). Excerpt covers EBB's poems on the new theme of love in Poems, 1850, including "A Man's Requirements." Preview at Google Books. Publisher's description.
Web Sites
Web site for the Armstrong Browning Library, at Baylor University, dedicated to the Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. The site includes access to "The Brownings: A Research Guide," a comprehensive online research guide to all known Browning-related materials.
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities.
Web site for Women's Writing, an international scholarly journal focusing on women's writing up to the end of the long nineteenth century. A sample copy is available for viewing, requires registration.
A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies.
Donaldson, Sandra, ed. "The first modern scholarly edition" of EBB's poems. Publisher's web site: The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Five Volumes. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
"Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell U, contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions.
Victorian cultural and historical context
"Victorianism." The Victorian Web. Ed. George P. Landow. Essays topics include Victorianism as a Fusion of Neoclassical and Romantic Ideas; The Complex Realities of Victorianism; Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History; The fundamental conflicts of Victorian poetry; Density and Elaborate Interconnectedness of High and Late Victorian culture; The Difficulties of Victorian Poetry; Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture; Victorian taste; Victorian Design; Race in Thought and Science; Victorian Earnestness; The Seaside in the Victorian Literary Imagination; Tennyson and Victorianism; The Victorian Gentleman; Crisis of Organized Religion; Queen Victoria.
"Monuments and Dust." Eds. Michael Levenson, David Trotter, Anthony Wohl. IATH, U of Va. A project by an international group of scholars who are creating a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London.
Jackson, Lee. "A Dictionary of Victorian London." Victorian social history through a "dictionary" of Victorian institutions.
"Darwin Correspondence Project." Eds. Jim Secord, Janet Browne. Online database of Charles Darwin's correspondence. The Darwin Correspondence Project was begun in 1974 by Frederick Burkhardt with the aid of zoologist Sydney Smith. It is now a searchable, online, open access database that includes complete transcripts of Darwin's letters and letters written to him, staffed by researchers and editors based in the UK at Cambridge University Library, home of the largest existing collection of Darwin's manuscripts, and in the US.
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