Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Mr. Haydon’s Portrait of Wm. Wordsworth. [1 p.] [ca. 1842]. Holograph sonnet unsigned. Published in The Athenaeum, 29 Oct. 1842. Later published in her Poems (1844). Leaf 3 recto of her autograph notebook. Browning Guide D0617 Rare Item Analysis by Ann Vondrak, Meagan…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, 4th ed. inscribed to W. M. Rossetti from the Authoress with frontispiece of EBB (Browning Guide C0013.1) EBB engraving for the 4th ed. of Aurora Leigh touched up by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Engraving by T.O. Barlow based on a photograph by…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript draft of Aurora Leigh, I.9-28, 204-207 on a page numbered 7 (Browning Guide D0051) EBB Proof Corrections for Aurora Leigh, pg 151-154 of the first edition (Browning Guide D0058) EBB Proof Corrections for Aurora Leigh on page headed “Aurora Leigh–4th edition,” postdating the fourth edition…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Draft of Sonnet 5 from Sonnets from the Portuguese (Browning Guide D0876.5) Rare Item Analysis: by Meagan Smith Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s draft of Sonnet V from the Sonnets of the Portuguese can be found in the Browning Collection (http://www.browningguide.org/ number D0876.5) of…
The Liberty Bell. Boston: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1848 containing the first appearance of EBB’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (ABLibrary Rare X 326 C4661 1848) Rare Item Analysis: “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” in The Liberty Bell (1848) by Bahar Saber Elizabeth Barrett…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript containing early poem drafts relating to “The Cry of the Children” (Browning Guide D0782): “Rock me softly–softly mother” “O pardon dear lady, for standing unsightly” Rare Item Analysis: By Tyler Cagle My rare item was a journal of Elizabeth…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to John Kenyon, mid-March, 1855 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jane Wills-Sanford, 2 March, 1857 Robert Bulwer Lytton to Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, 26 December 1856 John Ruskin to Robert Browning, 27 November, 1856 The Reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s…
Manuscript. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the death of Lord Byron. [2 p.] Not dated. Holograph, unsigned. Poem of 38 lines with additions and corrections. Rare Item Analysis: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Death of Lord Byron By Robin Landrith In response to Lord Byron’s…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Mr. Haydon’s Portrait of Wm. Wordsworth. [1 p.] [ca. 1842]. Holograph sonnet unsigned. Published in The Athenaeum, 29 Oct. 1842. Later published in her Poems (1844). Leaf 3 recto of her autograph notebook Rare Item Analysis: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet “On a…
Five Browning Letters Related to Chartism and the Working Classes EBB to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (Document ID in The Brownings’ Correspondence: Letter 2724) EBB to John Kenyon (Document ID in The Brownings’ Correspondence: Letter 2730) EBB to Julia Martin (Checklist Number in The Browning…