WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning

Lady Geraldine’s Courtship

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

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Documented 1845–1846

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    “LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP. Her foot upon the new-mown grass bareheaded with the flowing Of the virginal white vesture...”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    Substantial multi-line verbatim quotation from 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Miss Barrett’s Poems.

“Miss Barrett’s Poems.”
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“Her foot upon the new-mown grass—bareheaded—with the flowing Of the virginal white vesture, gathered closely to her throat; With the golden ringlets in her neck, just quickened by her going”

Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845

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Miss Barrett's Poems

“Miss Barrett's Poems”
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“Here are descriptions as fine of another sort of person from LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p203

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p203; page given is to the 1869 reprint.