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Thomas Westwood’s and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Criticism of Tennyson’s Poems (1842).

Letters: 12 August 1843 Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2 September 1843 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood 26 September 1843 Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 21 October 1843 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood The letters from Thomas Westwood are…

“‘Conceive Her Free’: Representations of Death and Natural Communion in the Poetry of Michael Field and Christina Rossetti

Underneath the Bough, revised and decreased edition. By Michael Field. From the collection of Field scholar Henri Locard, with his extensive penciled annotations and notes on inserted slips. London; New York: Printed by George Bell and Sons (1893). (Armstrong Browning Library 19Cent X…

A Poet in Progress: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetic Development from “A Vision of Poets” to Aurora Leigh

First edition of A Drama of Exile: and Other Poems (or its British title, Poems). By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New York, 1844. Two volumes, “A Vision of Poets” the lead poem of the second volume. (Browning Guide C0025, ABL Rare X 821.82 S…

Condemning Cruelty Against Creatures: Christina Rossetti’s Anti-Vivisection Perspective in Time Flies: A Reading Diary

Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies: A Reading Diary. London: Society for Promoting Christian          Knowledge, 1890. (ABLibrary 19thCent BV4832 .R74 1890) Rare Item Analysis: Condemning Cruelty Condemning Cruelty Against Creatures: Christina Rossetti’s Anti-Vivisection Perspective in Time Flies: A Reading Diary By Bryanne Mahon In a…

“The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age”: Viewing EBB’s Poetic Aspiration in the Light of Early Reviews of Aurora Leigh and Two Letters

Reviews Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. Review of Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Detached from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 81, no. 495 (Jan. 1857). Edinburgh: William Blackwood, pp. 23-41. ABL Periodicals Rare. https://www.browningscorrespondence.com/reviews/196/?rsId=254144. Review of Craigcrook Castle, by Gerald Massey, and Aurora Leigh, by…

Realigning the Apostle: J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists

J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists ABLibrary 19thCent OVZ BX5133.W542x D7 1839 Realigning the Apostle: J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists By Kristyn Drew Woytkewicz Introduction In 1839, proponents of Chartism, a working-class movement which argued for universal male suffrage and parliamentary reform, began staging…

Responses to In Memoriam: Early Comparisons of Tennyson through the Dialogue of Victorian Letters

Letters: 1. 13 December 1850 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 2. 19 July 1871 Edward Dowden to Elizabeth Dickinson West 3. 25 September 1882 James Martineau to Roden Noel Letter #1 is held in the Browning Letters Digital Collection of the…

Beyond the Threshold: Death, Nature, and Religious Life in Hopkins’s Response(s) to Rossetti’s “The Convent Threshold”

Goblin Market and Other Poems. By Christina Rossetti. With two designs by D. G. Rossetti. London: Printed by Macmillian and Co., Henrietta Street (1862).(ABLibrary 19thCent PR5237.G6 1862) ABL Women Poets Collection. Beyond the Threshold: Death, Nature, and Religious Life in Hopkins’s Response(s) to Rossetti’s…

Flexibility and Rigidity in Anglican Devotional Texts: The Book of Common Prayer and A Guide to the Holy Eucharist

A Guide to the Holy Eucharist. By William J.E. Bennet. Two Volumes. London: Printed by W.J. Cleaver, 1842. (Armstrong Browning Library, Anthem Archive: ABL Rare X 264.036 B472g 1843) The Book of Common Prayer and the Administration of Sacraments and Other Rites and…

Nature’s Intimate: Robert Browning’s New England Reception

The Boston Browning Society Papers Selected to Represent the Work of the Society from 1886-1897. New York: Macmillan, 1897. (ABLibrary Rare X 821.83 D B747b) Nature’s Intimate: Robert Browning’s New England Reception By Anna E. Beaudry Housed in plain, forest-green binding, the 1886-1897…