Elizabeth Barrett Browning Draft of “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (Browning Guide D0800 and D0802) Rare Item Analysis: by Allie Matherne The pre-fair copy manuscript of “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” located in the Browning Letters and Manuscripts collection at Armstrong…
Christina Rossetti Verses. London: Privately printed at G. Polidori’s, 1847 (ABLibrary 19thCent PR5237.V4 1847) Goblin Market and Other Poems 1862 First edition (ABLibrary 19thCent PR5237.G6 1862) Rare Item Analysis: by Chelsea Lee Christina Rossetti, most easily recognized and regarded for her poem “Goblin Market,” is…
Letters: 15 November 1868 Julia Wedgewood to Robert Browning 19 November 1868 Robert Browning to Julia Wedgewood 6 March 1869 Helena Faucit Martin to Robert Browning Rare Item analysis: Letters to Robert Browning: Browning Under Scrutiny by Allison Le Grice Between 1868 and 1869, Robert…
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…
Percy Shelley, Queen Mab (London: Printed and published by W. Clar 1821); annotation p. 180 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ABLibrary 19thCent PR5417 .A1 1821b Percy Shelley, Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. Now First published with a preface by Leigh Hunt (London: Edward Moxon, 1832)…
Jones, Robert Crompton, ed. Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. Print. Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies: A Reading Diary. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890. Print. —. Verses. London: Society for Promoting…
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…
Unpublished Letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “1813, Oct. 2, Samuel Taylor Coleridge to T.G. Street” Rare Item Analysis: Coleridge, Politics, and the Role of Government By Daniel Adams Presentation: Adams Rare Item Presentation The rare item is a letter written by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor…