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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Origins of a New Poetry

By: Dorothy Mermin

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Origins of a New Poetry

By: Dorothy Mermin

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was the first major woman poet in the English literary tradition. Her significance has been obscured in this century by her erasure from most literary histories and her exclusion from academic anthologies. Dorothy Mermin's critical and biographical study argues for Barrett Browning's originative role in both the Victorian poetic tradition and the development of women's literature. Barrett Browning's place at the wellhead of a new female tradition remains the single most important fact about her in terms of literary history, and it was central to her self-consciousness as a poet. Mermin's study shows that Barrett Browning's anomalous situation was constantly present to her imagination and that questions of gender shaped almost everything she wrote. Mermin argues that Barrett Browning's poetry covertly inspects and dismantles the barriers set in her path by gender and that in her major works—Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, her best political poems, "A Musical Instrument"—difficulty is turned into triumph, incorporating the author's femininity, her situation as a woman poet, and her increasingly substantial fame. Mermin skillfully interweaves biography and close readings of the poems to show precisely how Barrett Browning's life as a woman writer is a part of the essential meaning of her art. Both her personal and her literary achievements are exceptionally well documented, especially for her formative years. Mermin makes extensive use of the poet's early essays, a diary covering most of her twenty-sixth year, and the enormous number of letters that have survived. Ranging from her earliest ambitions through her long periods of discouragement and illness to her happy married life with Robert Browning, this comprehensive study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is essential reading for students of the Victorian period, English literature, and women's studies.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226520382

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9780226520384

Godiva's Ride

Women of Letters in England, 1830--1880

By: Dorothy Mermin

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Godiva's Ride

Women of Letters in England, 1830--1880

By: Dorothy Mermin

Students and teachers of Victorian women's careers will be grateful for [Mermin's] intelligent and equable guidance as they negotiate the paradoxes of Godiva's Ride." -- Modern Philology "This brief study should be enormously helpful to students seeking an introduction to feminist approaches to Victorian writers." -- Choice "Mermin's fine book is a work of synthesis that moves across many genres of women's writing... and touches on neglected writers of the period... as well as on the canonized few." -- American Historical Review "Godiva's Ride is a stimulating and enjoyable study of an exceptionally rich subject... " -- Victorian Periodicals Review "Accessible, original, and gracefully written, Godiva's Ride is likely to be as engrossing for the general reader as for the expert." -- Victorian Studies Describes the first great age of women's writing in England. Mermin discusses how women were encouraged to become writers, how they were discouraged and hindered, and what they wrote. The many women entering the mainstream of English literature in this era included the BrontÃ«s, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Harriet Martineau.

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Indiana University Press

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0253116104

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9780253116109

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Origins of a New Poetry

By: Dorothy Mermin

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The Origins of a New Poetry

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Godiva's Ride

Women of Letters in England, 1830--1880

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Women of Letters in England, 1830--1880

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Indiana University Press

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Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane

Forty Years of Friendship : Letters, 1921-1960

By: Dorothy Thompson,Rose Wilder Lane

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Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane

Forty Years of Friendship : Letters, 1921-1960

By: Dorothy Thompson,Rose Wilder Lane

The correspondence of these two prominent women reveals their concerns with love, career, and marriage. Their letters tell the story of the first generation of women to come of age during the twentieth century, as they tried to cope with problems that still face women today."--Publishers website.

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Les Guides de voyage Ulysse

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0826206468

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9780826206466

Reared in a Greenhouse

The Stories and Story, of Dorothy Winthrop Bradford

By: Dorothy B. Wexler

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Reared in a Greenhouse

The Stories and Story, of Dorothy Winthrop Bradford

By: Dorothy B. Wexler

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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456

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Taylor & Francis

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0815332548

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9780815332541

The Collected Dorothy Parker

By: Dorothy Parker

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The Collected Dorothy Parker

By: Dorothy Parker

With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle." -- Provided by publisher.

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610

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Penguin Modern Classics

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014118258X

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9780141182582

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