WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning

“The Lay of the Brown Rosary" in Poems”

"The Lay of the Brown Rosary" in Poems (1844), Inferred

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) · 1844

InferredThe reference is to Elizabeth Barrett's ballad 'The Lay of the Brown Rosary,' first published in Findens' Tableaux (1840) and collected in Poems (2 vols., London: Edward Moxon, 1844). In its original version, the heroine was named Lenora — a deliberate allusion to Bürger's ballad — before Barrett revised the name to Onora in the collected edition.

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Documented 1848

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1848—

Letter to Emelyn Story

p74

mentioned

“Not Burger's Leonora? Not Miss Barrett's?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred The reference is to Elizabeth Barrett's ballad 'The Lay of the Brown Rosary,' first published in Findens' Tableaux (1840) and collected in Poems (2 vols., London: Edward Moxon, 1844). In its original version, the heroine was named Lenora — a deliberate allusion to Bürger's ballad — before Barrett revised the name to Onora in the collected edition.