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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Guide to the Year's Work).(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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"Mrs. Ogilvy wanted to be with me, very kindly, but I would have nobody ... Then, Robert was with me the whole time till the last five minutes, when Dr. Harding sent him away--he lay on the bed, & I nearly pulled his head off, as the pains came." The most significant contribution to EBB scholarship in a number of years is without doubt The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella (2002), edited by Scott Lewis and handsomely produced by Wedgestone Press in two volumes running to more than twelve hundred pages in total. This is a major new resource for Victorian scholars, not only because so many of these letters are here published for the first time (a ...