EBB Correspondence
Annotated Guide to EBB’s Comments and Criticism:
Julia Swan, Marjorie Stone & Ryan van Huijstee
- On Her Own Works
- On 19th-c Authors
- On Selected Topics
Selected Topics
- Americans and American Literature
- French Language, Literature and People
- Gender, Women and Men
- Germans and Germany
- Italian Language and Literature
- Literature in General: Writing, Writers, Critics & Genres
- Love and Marriage
- Mesmerism
- Poetry and Poetics
- Politics
- Religion
- Science
- Slavery and Slavery Metaphors
- Spiritualism
- Swedenborgianism
- Visual Arts and Artists
Selection Rationale and Scope
EBB’s widely cited writings as a literary critic and commentator on political and cultural events are mainly found in her voluminous correspondence between 1810 and 1861. read more...
Acknowledgements and Attribution
This guide was funded by portions of two Standard Research Grants held by Marjorie Stone. Julia Swan, during her doctoral program, did the bulk of the work in the first phase, incorporating and annotating material from EBB’s Diary, volumes 1-13 of BC, LMRM and LEBB; in the process, she helped to refine selected topic categories. Ryan van Huijstee, during his MA program, updated the annotated guide by incorporating and annotating material from volume 14 of The Brownings’ Correspondence, and editions of the letters to EBB’s two sisters Arabella and Henrietta and to Eliza Ogilvy. Lesley Newhook, during her doctoral program, revised some Aurora Leigh entries.
