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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Also by Martin Garrett * A BROWNING CHRONOLOGY: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning GREECE: A Literary Companion LORD BYRON MASSINGER: The Critical Heritage SIDNEY: The Critical Heritage TRAVELLER'S LITERARY COMPANION TO ITALY * From the same publishers 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 [B] 99-087395 Introduction, compilation and editorial matter © Martin Garrett 2000 Text © Macmillan Press Ltd 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1stedition 2000 978-0-312-23226-9 All rights reserved. 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This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 09 08 07 06 0504 03020100 To Helen, Philip and Edmund This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations XV Introduction xix Part 1: Elizabeth Barrett 1806-46 'Glimpses Into My Own Literary Character' Elizabeth Barrett 3 Religious Imagination Elizabeth Barrett 4 More 'Glimpses' Elizabeth Barrett 5 'Happy influences' Anne Thackeray Ritchie 7 'Dearest Papa would be sorry to think how much he grieved me' Elizabeth Barrett 8 'My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Barrett' Mary Russell Mitford 10 'The fatal event which saddened her bloom of youth' Mary Russell Mit(ord 11 Miss Barrett at Thirty-Five Mary Russell Mit(ord 12 'The duties belonging to my femineity' Elizabeth Barrett 14 On Poetry I: 'the object of the intellectual part of me' Elizabeth Barrett 1 5 On Poetry II: 'I want to write a new poem of a new class' Elizabeth Barrett 1 5 On Poetry III: 'relations ... higher than the naked eye of the cold reasoning intellect can discern at all' Elizabeth Barrett 16 'I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none' Elizabeth Barrett 17 viii Contents Mr Browning's Poetry: 'A palpable power' Elizabeth Barrett 18 'I was as a man dying who had not read Shakespeare' Elizabeth Barrett 19 'I was repulsed too often' Elizabeth Barrett 21 Part II: Robert Browning 1812-46 Childhood Memories Alexandra Orr 27 The Poet's History Robert Browning 30 Music Robert Sidney 32 An Unpoetical Nose Sarah Flower 33 'Robert talks immensely' Katie Bromley 33 'Lemon-coloured kid-gloves and such things' Eliza Bridell-Fox 34 'Long ringlets and no neck-cloth' Mary Russell Mitford 35 Browning's 'lion-like ruff' William Harrison Ainsworth 35 Browning and Thomas Carlyle William Allingham 36 'Little Paracelsus Browning' Thomas Carlyle 3 7 Browning and Jane Carlyle Alexandra Orr 38 Browning, Macready and Forster I: Strafford William Charles Macready 38 Pippa Passes Alexandra Orr 44 Browning, Macready and Forster II: The Return of the Druses William Charles Macready 44 Browning, Macready and Forster III: A Blot on the 'Scutcheon William Charles Macready 45 'Conversation ... as remarkably good as his books' Joseph Arnauld 47 Contents ix Part III: The Brownings 1846-61 Marriage Elizabeth Barrett Browning 51 The Journey to Italy Anna Brownell Jameson 53 The Brownings, 1847 George Stillman Hillard 57 Story's First Impression of the Brownings William Wetmore Story 59 Casa Guidi Kate Field 60 Florence Elizabeth Barrett Browning 61 Browning and the Anglo-Florentines Thomas Adolphus Trollope 61 'Better than any poem' Henriette Corkran 62 Recollections of Mrs Browning Eliza Ogilvy 63 The Brownings: a Child's View Henriette Corkran 67 Browning and his Beard Elizabeth Barrett Browning 69 'A countenance of April shine and shower' William Michael Rossetti 69 'A face corresponding with delicate exactness to the tone of her poems' William Michael Rossetti 70 Browning Portraits William Michael Rossetti 71 'I'll fling you down the stairs': Browning and Mr Sludge William Allingham 72 Tennyson and Browning perform William Michael Rossetti 73 'This generous humility of nature' Anne Thackeray Ritchie 74 Browning at Bellosguardo Frances Power Cobbe 76 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Conversation Kate Field 78
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