WorkElizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
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Documented 1845–1846
Books • 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.
“One book she gave me was Elizabeth Barrett's poems, which were very dear to her... She particularly spoke at that time of the poem called "The Swan's Nest.”
Mem-1 Recollections of Richard F. Fuller · During Richard's last two years in college (Margaret rented house on Ellery street during his last two years, i.e. c. 1843-1844)
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re140 (Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six, Mem-1-05.txt line 3483-3491; tier C; same passage) — counted once here. Specific dated (c.1843) memoir anecdote of Margaret giving Richard Barrett Browning's poems and discussing a specific poem.
“LITTLE ELLIE sits alone ‘Mid the beeches of a meadow By a stream-side, on the grass; And the trees are showering down Doubles of their leaves, in shadow, On her shining hair and face.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845
“THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST.* How sweetly natural ! and how distinct is the picture of the little girl, as she sits by the brook.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p202
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p202; page given is to the 1869 reprint.