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Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to Richard Hengist Horne, Friday Morng [1844 February 23].

BIB_ID
403147
Accession number
MA 2147.31
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
Friday Morng [1844 February 23].
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 10.7 x 9.1 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from footnote to published letter cited below.
Summary
Expressing her frustration at being a woman; saying "Be consoled that you are not a w̲o̲m̲a̲n̲. Orion might have been the worse for it. Not to be a m̲a̲n̲ was one of my childish griefs - indignations & disdains - but I have gradually become resigned to my misfortune . . . which is an example to you . . ." submitting mottoes she has written for Banim, the "Irish novelists as a body", "Mrs. Shelley & the imaginative novelists", and for Heraud.