1st Edition
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part II, Volume 1 The Brownings
The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.
Introduction 1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Glimpses into My Own Life and Literary Character’ 2. Carlyle Correspondence a) Thomas Carlyle, New Letters of Thomas Carlyle b) Charles Gavin Duffy, Conversations with Carlyle 3. Richard Hengist Horne, A New Spirit of the Age 4. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1845-1846 5. Mary Russell Mitford a) Recollections of a Literary Life b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Flush or Faunus’ c) Letters in Memorials of Charles Boner 6. Anna Jameson a) Gerardine McPherson, Memoirs of Anna Jameson b) Anna Jameson, Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships 7. Sonnets from the Portuguese a) Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (extracts) 8. Mrs David Oglivy, ‘Memoir’ 9. Robert Browning on the Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning a) The Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning b) Edward Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning c) ‘O Lyric Love’ 10. Kate Field, ‘Elizabeth Barrett Browning’, Atlantic Monthly 11. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Note-books 12. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Victorian Poets 13. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember 14. John Ingram, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 15. William Sharp, Life of Robert Browning 16. Edmund Gosse, Personalia 17. Mrs [Alexandra] Sutherland Orr, Life and Letters of Robert Browning 18. Anne Ritchie, Records of Tennyson, Ruskin and Browning 19. Mrs Andrew [Cornelia] Crosse, The Red-Letter Days of My Life 20. L. B. Walford, Twelve English Authoresses 21. Alice Meynell, Introduction to Prometheus Bound and Other Poems 22. Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir By His Son 23. ‘Michael Field’, Works and Days 24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Spiritualism a) F. Merrifield, Times Literary Supplement b) Robert Barrett Browning, Times Literary Supplement 25. Katharine de Kay Bronson, ‘Browning in Venice’ Cornhill Magazine 26. Flenry James, William Wetmore Story and His Friends 27. G. K. Chesterton, Robert Browning 28. William Michael Rossetti, Some Reminiscences 29. Fannie Barrett Browning, Some Memories of Robert Browning 30. Poems Addressed to and About the Brownings a) Dora Greenwell, ‘To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851’ b) Dora Greenwell, ‘To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861’ c) Bessie Rayner Parkes, ‘To Elizabeth Barrett Browning’ d) Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, ‘To Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Her Later Sonnets, 1856’ e) Emily Dickinson, ‘Her Last Poems’ f) Walter Savage Landor, ‘To Robert Browning’ g) Theodore Martin, ‘Robert Browning’ h) Algernon Swinburne, ‘A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning’
Biography
Volume Editors: Simon Avery (The Brownings), Marianna Kambani (The Brontes), Hester Jones (The Rossettis), Series Editor Ralph Pite.
