WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
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Documented 1845
Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“this paragraph from her Preface: "If it were not presumptuous language on the lips of one to whom life is more than usually uncertain, my favourite wish for this work would be...”
Papers on Literature and Art
Extensive ~67-line verbatim quotation from Barrett's Preface to A Drama of Exile.
“If it were not presumptuous language on the lips of one to whom life is more than usually uncertain, my favorite wish for this work would be, that it be received by the public as a deposit”
Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845