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George Moulton-Barrett : letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father and brother's responses to her marriage: 'The delay of the week in Paris brought me to the hour of my death warrant at Orleans [...] Robert brought in a great packet of letters [...] He wanted to sit by me while I read them, but I would not let him [...] I got him to go away for ten minutes, to meet the agony alone [...] And besides it was right not to let him read -- -- They were very hard letters, those from dearest Papa & dearest George'. '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript: Letter
Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett : letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father, brother's, and sisters' responses to her marriage: 'The delay of the week in Paris brought me to the hour of my death warrant at Orleans [...] Robert brought in a great packet of letters [...] He wanted to sit by me while I read them, but I would not let him [...] I got him to go away for ten minutes, to meet the agony alone [...] And besides it was right not to let him read -- -- They were very hard letters, those from dearest Papa & dearest George [...] 'Now I will tell you -- Robert who had been waiting at the door [...] came in & found me just able to cry from the balm of your tender words -- I put your two letters into his hands, & [italics]he[end italics], when he had read them, said with tears in his eyes, & kissing them between the words -- "I love your sisters with a deep affection -- I am inexpressibly grateful to them -- It shall be the object of my life to justify their trust as they express it here."' '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript: Letter
: Advertisement for edition of Honore de Balzac, Comedie Humaine
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'I see by the "Siecle" that Balzac's works are coming out in a complete edition arranged by himself under the title of "Comedie Humaine," and, with the idea, that this arrangement may be of use to you in various ways I send you a copy of it as it is printed at large in the French paper [encloses transcription of text].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Frederic Soulie : Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new romance of Soulie's called "Saturnin Fichet," which is really not good .. & tiresome to boot. Robert & I began by each of us reading it, but after a little while he left me alone being certain that no good could come of such a work: so, of course, ever since, I have been exclaiming & exclaiming as to the wonderful improvement & increasing beauty & glory of it, .. just to justify myself, & to make him sorry for not having persevered! The truth is, however, that but for obstinacy, I should give up too. Deplorably dull, the story is, .. & there is a crowd of people each more indifferent than each'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Newspaper
: Italian grammar
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847: 'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & stood by the table in my lazy careless way, turning over the leaves of an old book which lay there. "Why, Wilson! you have another Italian grammar --" "Yes, I could'nt understand a word of the other, -- and the man of the house lent me this" -- I turned to the title page -- written in a large distinct hand .... [italics]James Johnstone Bevan, Milano[end italics] ...!! [...] The book was Mr Bevan's book, the landlord was Mr Bevan's landlord; & in a house of the said landlord (not this house but another) had Mr Bevan & two of his friends lived for a whole winter [goes on to note further association of Bevan with landlord] [...] Is'nt this a curious coincidence?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh Clough : Ambarvalia (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck by the extracts. They may however have been selected without much discriminaton [...] I am very glad that you like the Gipsey Carrol in dear Mr Kenyon's volume, because it is, & was in M.S., a great favorite [sic] of mine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Serial / periodical
Matthew Arnold : 'The Sick King in Bokhara'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Matthew Arnold : 'The Forsaken Merman'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music .. but I am disappointed in the book as a whole. What I like infinitely better, is Clough's "Bothie of Topernafuosich" a "long-vacation pastoral" written in loose & more-than-need-be unmusical hexameters, but full of vigour & freshness, & with whole passages & indeed whole scenes of great beauty & eloquence. It seems to have been written before the other poems [...] Oh, it strikes both Robert & me as being worth twenty of the other little book, with its fragmentary, dislocated, inartistic character. Arnold's volume has two good poems in it .. "The Sick King of Bokhara" [sic] & "The deserted Merman" [sic]. I liked them both -- But none of these writers are [italics]artists[end italics] whatever they may be in future days.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am reading "Shirley", and am interested -- only it does not seem to me equally suggestive of power (so far) with Jane Eyre.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte : Shirley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to Jane Eyre in spontaneousness & earnestness: I found it heavy, I confess, though in [...] the compositional savoir faire, there is an advance. Robert has exhumed some French books, just now, from a little circulating li[brary] which we had not tried -- and we have just been making ourselves uncomfortable over Balzac's "Cousin Pons". But what a wonderful writer he is! Who could have taken such a subject, out of the lowest mud of humaity, & glorified & consecrated it?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Alexandre Dumas (pere) : Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph Balsamo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850: 'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Catherine Maria Fanshawe : poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [...] as one of the most witty of our wits in verse, men or women. I have only seen M.S. copies of her verses, & that years ago, but they struck me very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript: Unknown, copied
Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Tennyson's "In Memoriam," which seemed to me exquisitely beautiful & pathetical.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Serial / periodical
: 'German Socialism'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850:
'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]North British[end italics]? I read a clever article in that review some months
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Serial / periodical
John Westland Marston : Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850: 'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband only saw it in the reading room, where women dont penetrate, (because in Italy we cant read, you see) & where the periodicals are kept so strictly like Hesperian apples, by the dragons of the place, that none can be stolen away for even half an hour. So he could only wish me to catch sight of that article -- and you are good enough to send it & oblige us both accordingly.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Gaskell : Mary Barton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. There is power & truth -- she can shape & she can pierce -- but I wish half the book away, it is so tedious every now & then, -- and besides I want more beauty, more air from the universal world -- these class-books must always be defective as works of art [...] Then the style of the book is slovenly, and given to a kind of phraseology which would be vulgar even in colloquial English. Oh -- it is a powerful book in many ways -- You are not to set me down as hypercritical. Probably the author will write herself clear of many of her faults: she has strength enough.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Unknown
Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'As to "In Memoriam," I have seen it, I have read it, .. dear Mr [John] Kenyon had the goodness to send it to me [...] the book has gone to my heart & soul [...] All I wish away, is the marriage hymn at the end, & [italics]that[end italics], for every reason I wish away -- it's a discord in the music. The monotony is a part of the position -- the sea is monotonous, & so is lasting grief [...] So the effect of the book is artistic & true, I think'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December: 'We have been reading together Tennyson's "In Memoriam" in the evenings. Most beautiful and pathetic. I read aloud, Robert looking over the page -- & we talked & admired & criticised every separate stanza. Now, we are going in like manner through Shelley.'
