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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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1899, numerous reprints; ed E. Kintner, 2 vols Cambridge MA
1969; also ed V. E. Stack, London 1969, and as How do I love thee?
The love-letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, New
York 1969, rptd 1987; ed and selected by D. Karlin as Robert
Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: the courtship correspondence,
New York and Oxford 1989.
Letters to Robert Browning and other correspondents. Ed T. J. Wise
1916 (priv ptd).
Letters to her sister 1846–59 [to Henrietta Cook]. Ed L. Huxley 1929.
Also pbd in Cornhill Mag 66, May and June, and 67, July and Aug
1929.
Letters addressed to Mrs. Gaskell by celebrated contemporaries. Ed
R. D. Waller, BJRL 19, Jan 1935.
Twenty-two unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and
Robert Browning addressed to Henrietta and Arabella Moulton-
Barrett. New York 1935. Rptd as Addressed to Wimpole Street, ed
W. R. Benét, Woman’s Home Companion Sep–Dec 1935, and
Argosy 19, Feb–Apr 1936. Rptd as From Robert and Elizabeth
Browning, a further selection, 1936.
Letters from Elizabeth Barrett to B. R. Haydon. Ed M. H. Shackford,
New York 1939; ed W. B. Pope as Invisible friends: the correspondence
of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett and Benjamin Robert Haydon
1842–45, Cambridge MA 1972.
New letters to Isa Blagden. Ed E. C. McAleer, PMLA 66, Sep 1951.
Unpublished letters of Thomas De Quincey and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. Ed S. Musgrove, Auckland Univ College Bull 44
1954.
Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford. Ed B. Miller, London and New
Haven CT 1954; as Letters to Mary Russell Mitford, Waco TX,
Winfield KS and Wellesley MA 1983; selections pbd as Women of
letters, ed M. B. Raymond and M. R. Sullivan, Boston 1987.
Elizabeth Barrett to Mr [Hugh Stuart] Boyd. Ed B. P. McCarthy,
London and New Haven CT 1955.
Pasquale Villari and the Brownings. Ed E. C. McAleer, Boston Public
Lib Quart 9 1957.
Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett. Ed P. Landis with R. E.
Freeman, Urbana IL 1958.
British and American literary letters in Scandinavian public collections.
Ed N. E. Enkvist, Acta Academiae Aboensis Humanitora 27
1964.
Browning to his American friends: letters between the Brownings,
the Storys, and James Russell Lowell 1841–90. Ed G. R. Hudson,
New York 1965.
Brownings and Tennysons: letters to Alfred, Emily, and Hallam
Tennyson 1852–89. Ed T. J. Collins, Waco TX 1971.
Ruskin and the Brownings: twenty-five unpublished letters. Ed D. J.
DeLaura, BJRL 54 1972.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s letters to Mrs David Ogilvy 1849–61.
Ed P. N. Heydon and P. Kelley, New York 1973.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her brother Alfred. Ed R. Hudson,
Browning Inst Stud 2 1974.
The Brownings and Mrs Kinney. Ed R. A. Bosco, Browning Inst Stud
4 1976.
Translations
A number of lyric trns are collected in Last poems (1862) and Hitherto
unpublished poems and stories (1914), both above. See also Barnes, under
Bibliographies, primary, above, for a full list at the end of the Index of textual
variants.
Prometheus bound, translated from the Greek of Æschylus. 1833;
retranslated 1850; ed W. R. Agard, New York 1950; Ithaca NY 1952;
ed W. A. Landis, Studio City CA 1992.
Æschylus’ Soliloquy [erroneously attributed to Robert Browning].
1913 (rptd several times in discussions of authorship; see S.
Donaldson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: an annotated bibliography,
Boston 1993).
§2
Reviews and criticism for 1826–1990 are excerpted in S. Donaldson,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: an annotated bibliography, Boston 1993.
Annual bibliographies of Browning criticism appear in two periodicals
devoted to study of the Brownings: Browning Inst Stud, now Victorian Lit
and Culture (indexed by E. N. Shapiro and W. S. Peterson 1973–82, vol 11
1983), 1973– ; and Browning Newsletter, now Stud in Browning (semiannual
1969–82, annual 1983– ). See also Victorian Poetry, Guide to the
Year’s Work 1974–79, and 1983–; and Victorian Studies, Victorian bibliography:
Brownings 1958– . The section below focuses mainly on textual
matters.
The IELM section on the Brownings lists descriptions and catalogues of mss
and other materials in repositories.
Slater, J. H. E. B. Browning. In Early editions, 1894.
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge. Browning collections. 1913. Rptd
(facs) J. Woolford (ed) in Sale catalogues, ed A. N. L. Munby, vol 6
1972. See also B. Coley and P. Kelley, Lot 931: a reconstruction, Waco
TX 1981, expanded to full 1913 catalogue as The Browning collections:
a reconstruction, P. Kelley and B. A. Coley (comps), Waco
TX, New York, London and Winfield KS 1984.
Palmer, G. H. Catalogue of early and rare editions of English poetry
[at Wellesley College]. Boston 1923.
Catalogue of the papers of Lt-Col Harry Peyton Moulton-Barrett
deceased. 1937; rptd P. Kelley (ed), Browning Inst Stud 5 1977.
[French, H. D.] Elizabeth Barrett Browning: an exhibition commemorating
the Sonnets from the Portuguese. Friends of the
Wellesley Coll Lib 8 1950.
Johnson, R. C. and G. T. Tanselle. The Haldeman-Julius Little Blue
Books as a bibliographical problem. PBSA 64 1970.
Christie, Manson & Woods. Books and manuscripts from the library
of Arthur A. Houghton Jnr. 1979. See also J. Klingman, A catalogue
of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning manuscript
materials and books, Waco TX 1979.
Kelley, P. and R. Hudson. Elusive Browningiana: a list of unlocated
manuscripts, marginalia and annotated works. Browning Inst
Stud 7 1979.
Forster, M. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a biography. London and
New York 1988.
Duval, S. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: first
editions from the Victorian collection. Provo UT 1989. [sd]
Robert Browning 1812–89
Major collections of mss, letters, books belonging to Browning, etc, are at the
Armstrong Browning Lib, Baylor Univ, Texas; Balliol College, Oxford; BL;
Brighton Area Lib; Harvard Univ; the Huntington; NYPL (Berg Collection);
Pierpont Morgan Lib; Princeton Univ (Taylor Collection); Univ of Texas,
Austin; Victoria and Albert Museum; Wellesley College; Yale Univ. Full list of
holdings in Kelley and Coley, The Browning collections (see below). See
also IELM vol 4 pt 1 1982.
Bibliographies etc
For surveys of contributions to Browning scholarship and criticism, lists, and
descriptions of lib holdings or acquisitions, see: Annual bibliography in VS;
LITHR [Lit Information and Retrieval] Database; Armstrong
Browning Lib Newsletter; Browning Newsletter; MLA (SPIRS)
Database; Stud in Browning and his Circle; SEL; Victorian Newsletter;
Victorian Lit and Culture ( formerly Browning Inst Stud); VP; YWES.
Furnivall, F. J. Bibliography of Browning from 1833 to 1881.
Browning Soc Papers 1 1881–4.
Orr, A. A handbook to the works of Browning. 1885. Discusses the
whole canon in classified groups, as authorised and partly supervised
by Browning; subsequent edns (1886, 1887, 1890 etc) incorporate
suggestions and revisions by Browning.
Porter, C. and H. A. Clarke. A Browning reference list. Poet-Lore
Oct–Nov 1889.