Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime] A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.

 

Works (collections)

 

1820: The Battle of Marathon: A Poem. Privately printed
1826: A Essay On Mind, with Other Poems. London: James Duncan
1833: Prometheus Bound, Translated from the Greek of Aeschylus,and Miscellaneous Poems. London: A.J. Valpy
1838: The Seraphim, and Other Poems. London: Saunders and Otley
1844: Poems (UK) / A Drama of Exile, and other Poems (US). London: Edward Moxon. New York: Henry G. Langley
1850: Poems ("New Edition," 2 vols.) Revision of 1844 edition adding Sonnets from the Portuguese and others. London: Chapman & Hall
1851: Casa Guidi Windows. London: Chapman & Hall
1853: Poems (3d ed.). London: Chapman & Hall
1854: Two Poems: "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" and "The Twins". London: Bradbury & Evans
1856: Poems (4th ed.). London: Chapman & Hall
1857: Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman and Hall
1860: Poems Before Congress. London: Chapman & Hall
1862: Last Poems. London: Chapman & Hall

Posthumous publications of Barrett Browning's works

1863: The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets. London: Chapman & Hall
1877: The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, ed. Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Bartholomew Robson
1877: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, with comments on contemporaries, 2 vols., ed. S.R.T. Mayer. London: Richard Bentley & Son
1897: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2 vols., ed. Frederic G. Kenyon. London:Smith, Elder,& Co.
1899: Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845-1846, 2 vol., ed Robert W. Barrett Browning. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1914: New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Frederic G Kenyon. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1929: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to Her Sister, 1846-1859, ed. Leonard Huxley. London: John Murray
1935: Twenty-Two Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning to Henrietta and Arabella Moulton Barrett. New York: United Feature Syndicate
1939: Letters from Elizabeth Barrett to B.R. Haydon, ed. Martha Hale Shackford. New York: Oxford University Press
1954: Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford, ed. Betty Miller. London: John Murry
1955: Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hugh Stuart Boyd, ed. Barbara P. McCarthy. New Heaven, Conn.: Yale University Press
1958: Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett, ed. Paul Landis with Ronald E. Freeman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press
1974: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, 1849-1861, ed. P. Heydon and P. Kelley. New York: Quadrangle, New York Times Book Co., and Browning Institute
1984: The Brownings' Correspondence, ed. Phillip Kelley, Ronald Hudson, and Scott Lewis. Winfield, Kans.: Wedgestone Press