Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Interviews and Recoll
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
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Interviews and Recollections Edited by
Martin Garrett
First published in Great Britain 2000 by
MACMILLAN PRESS LTD
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
First published in the United States of America 2000 by
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC.,
Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-1-349-62896-4 ISBN 978-1-349-62894-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-62894-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning : interviews and recollections / edited by Martin Garrett. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. 2. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. 3. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861- Friends and associates. 4. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889- Friends and associates. 5. Poets, English -19th century-Biography. 6. Married people-Great Britain-Biography. I. Garrett, Martin. PR4193 .E45 2000 821'.809-dc21
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Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction
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Part 1: Elizabeth Barrett 1806-46
'Glimpses Into My Own Literary Character' Elizabeth Barrett Religious Imagination Elizabeth Barrett More 'Glimpses' Elizabeth Barrett 'Happy influences' Anne Thackeray Ritchie 'Dearest Papa would be sorry to think how much he grieved me' Elizabeth Barrett 'My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Barrett' Mary Russell Mitford 'The fatal event which saddened her bloom of youth' Mary Russell Mit(ord Miss Ba
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