The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Page

( 1806 - 1861 )

Major Works
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems is available from Penguin, edited by Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway; Aurora Leigh is available in Oxford World's Classics, edited by Kerry McSweeney.
The Battle of Marathon ( 1820 ).
" An Essay on Mind " ( 1826 ).
The Seraphim and Other Poems ( 1838 ).
Poems ( 1844 ). Selections On Line
Poems ( 1850 ). The above collection, enlarged to include " Sonnets from the Portuguese " and " Prometheus Bound " from Aeschylus' Greek, first published in 1833.
Casa Guidi Windows ( 1851 ). Casa Guidi was the Brownings' home in Florence, just down the street from the Pitti Palace.
Aurora Leigh ( 1857 ). Available in a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Margaret Reynolds.
Poems Before Congress ( 1860 ).
Last Poems ( 1862 ).
The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets ( 1863; first published, 1842 ). Translations On Line
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Two Volumes. Edited by Frederic G. Kenyon. Macmillan, 1897.
Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, 1845 - 46. Two Volumes. Harper, 1899

About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rudolf Besier's play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, is a dramatic version of Elizabeth's life at home, the home from which she eloped with Robert in 1846.
Dorothy Hewlett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Life. Knopf, 1952.
Gardner B. Taplin, The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale, 1957.
EBB from The Victorian Web.
EBB Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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