and would make a great movie; yet for nearly a century this public, active life has been turned inside out by a simpering caricature. The fictional “Elizabeth Barrett Browning” has been played ...

According to diBattista, Woolf, the central figure in last year’s Oscar-winning movie “The Hours,” and invalid Elizabeth Barrett Browning both had domineering fathers. In fact, Barrett was ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yawn. That cloying love poem, “How do I love thee?” That portrait where she looks at us sideways, her heavy curls shadowing her face. A Victorian invalid who was th ...

It is also far too long to sustain interest in its purported subject, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, much less in its real one, writer and performer Barbara Neri. Talking as herself, via the magic of ...

It is very painful to record the death of one from whom we had hoped so much as from Mrs. BROWNING ... she writes in 1851, "with ELIZABETH BARRETT, commenced about fifteen years ago.

So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning. Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming ...

By John Plotz TWO-WAY MIRROR The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning By Fiona Sampson Carol Ann Duffy became Britain’s first female poet laureate in 2009. More than a century and a half earlier ...

So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning. Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming ...