‘I want to write a poem of a new class – a Don Juan, without the mockery and impurity,’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend in 1844, ‘and admitting of as much philosophical dreaming and ...

Dramatisation of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's classic poem about life, art and love. Starring Joanna Vanderham. Aurora Leigh is a talented young poet. Determined not to conform to society's ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Victorian Poetry examines the poetry of the Victorian Period (1830-1914) from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, ...

One of my favorite parenting-related moments in Victorian poetry comes quite early in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, when the orphaned title character reflects on the differences between ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The primary mission of the Armstrong Browning Library is to serve as a "library of record" of research materials relating to ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

From the start, young “Ba”, raised in Herefordshire, was a blur of activity, a fan of “bows & arrows, and squirts & popguns.” Her internal life was just as vigorous: with the encouragement of her ...

Aurora Leigh is a talented young poet. Determined not to conform to society’s expectations and instead pursue literary ambitions, she shuns marriage in order to navigate her own path in life.