The works of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) enjoyed great popularity during her lifetime. Her most enduring poetry has proved to be Sonnets from the Portuguese. Elizabeth Barrett was born on March 6, 1806, near Durham. She was th...

Rated by her contemporaries among the leading poets--male or female--writing in English, Elizabeth Barrett Browning remained prominent in Great Britain, the United States, and parts of Europe from the 1840s throughout most of the nineteenth century. Scor...

Among all women poets of the Englishspeaking world in the nineteenth century, none was held in higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her views than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. During the years of her marriage to R...

I am waiting for a story, and I won't take one, because I want to make one, and I like to make my own stories, because then I can take liberties with them in the treatment. --Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning; February...

The poem 'Aurora Leigh' is a recantation and also a paradigmatic female riposte to 'Paradise Lost.' The latter aspect has been actually overlooked by critics. The obvious similarity of these works is that of the heroines. Aurora is the Latin name for Eos, goddess...

In the following excerpt, Reynolds discusses the politics and literary influences that shaped Browning's Aurora Leigh. She also summarizes the poem and discusses its approach to issues of femininity.

In the following essay, Peterson treats Aurora Leigh as an autobiography, emphasizing the literary influences of Wordsworth's Prelude and Letitia Elizabeth Landon's biographical sketches.

In the following essay, Wallace explores themes of gender, labor, and writing in Aurora Leigh, linking these motifs with the georgic and peripatetic literary genres.