SOURCE: "From Patria to Matria: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento," in PMLA, Vol. 99, No. 2, March, 1984, pp. 194-211.
In the following essay, Gilbert claims that Browning's "visions of Italia Riuníta had more to do with both her femaleness and her feminism than is usually supposed, " and served as a vehicle for establishing her own poetic identity.
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