Author: Eliza Orne WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Browning Courtship
Author: Eliza Orne WhiteA Browning Courtship
Author: Eliza Orne WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Browning Courtship
Author: Eliza Orne WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
BROWNING COURTSHIP & OTHER STO
Author: Eliza Orne B. 1856 WhitePublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781361488287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A Browning Courtship and Other Stories (1897)
Author: Eliza Orne WhitePublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781436952842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Dared And Done
Author: Julia MarkusPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030783297X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified. We enter their story through the sealed Victorian world of the Barretts of Wimpole Street: Elizabeth, at thirty-nine, a poet of international fame, a child prodigy who had grown to be a middle-aged spinster, a woman for whom romantic love seemed not to be possible, confined by illness, morphine, and the tyranny of her father, scion of rich Jamaican slaveholders, rum and sugar traders. It is to this fortress that Robert Browning, already an admired young poet and playwright, already a devotee of Elizabeth's, lays siege. ("I love your verses," he had written Elizabeth in his first letter to her, long before they met. "I love your verses with all my heart -- and I love you too.") And miraculously Elizabeth let life in. Julia Markus chronicles their extraordinary courtship, their marriage in secret (Browning to Elizabeth: "How you have dared and done all this ... for my only sake?"), and their radiant honeymoon in Italy. Markus shows us how the political events of the times inspired the great dramatic monologues of Robert's middle years and how Italy's stormy reunification inspired Elizabeth's later work. We come to see Elizabeth as an artist with a fierce and final confidence in poetry and its effect on the poets' lives. We see husband and wife celebrate the birth of their son, Robert Wiedemann "Pen" Barrett Browning (Browning to her sisters: "I sate by [Elizabeth] as much as I was allowed, and I shall never forget what I saw, tho' I cannot speak about it"). We see them among their artist/writer friends: in London with Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, and others; in Rome with William Story, the American lawyer, poet, sculptor; with Harriet Hosmer, the stonecutter, who was one of the models for Aurora Leigh; with Charlotte Cushman, the American actress, who held readings of Elizabeth's novel in verse. We see Elizabeth in Paris meeting her heroine George Sand, whose society of socialists and theatrical types Robert described as "ragged Red." We come to understand Elizabeth's dependence on the ever-present drug in her life ("I should not be alive except by help of my morphine") and her constant battle with depression. And we see Elizabeth, encouraged by a woman with whom she was infatuated, move from interest to obsession with spiritualism, a cause that became the only source of serious dissension between the Brownings. We follow the course of their rich marriage, from the beginning when each saw the other as a brilliant poet, a compassionate and strangely similar heart, through the years in which they discovered each other's differences, each remaining a complex and thrilling human being to the other. To tell their story, Markus for the first time makes use of much of Elizabeth's unpublished correspondence, amid a wealth of other documents. She delves fully into the Brownings' Creole background and shows how it affected their lives and their work (Elizabeth was the first of the Jamaican Barretts to be born in England in many generations). Brilliantly interweaving the Brownings' own words with her authentic and perceptive narrative, Julia Markus brings these two great poets -- their marriage, their work, their times -- alive as never before.
A Browning Courtship, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)
Author: Eliza Orne WhitePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267116959
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Excerpt from A Browning Courtship, and Other Stories Miss Niles was in her garden cutting asparagus, too. She bobbed her long pale face forward, so that she could see me through the hole in the hedge. She looks queerer than ever since she has 'taken to wearing that green sun-bonnet but she is so good that I ought not to make fun of her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Bulletin
Author: J. Herman Bossler Memorial Library (Carlisle, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Special libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description