BIB_ID
283811
Accession number
MA 625.5
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1843 Dec. 29.
Description
1 item (16 p.) ; 10.8 cm
Notes
Bound in a volume that includes a poem by E.B. Browning, a poem by Robert Browning, four letters from E.B. Browning and Robert Browning, and a print of E.B. Browning (described individually as MA 625.1-7).
Summary
Describing a poem she is working on about "the development of the peculiar anguish of Eve"; returning one of his proofs and commenting on it; mentioning her "omnivorousness of reading" and her belief that she would be wiser if she "had not read half as much." The letter mentions Thomas Carlyle, John Milton, Douglas Jerrold, Albany Fonblanque, Sydney Smith, Agnes Strickland, and Sarah Stickney.
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