Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my
brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a
donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs
Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...]
Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the
passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder
discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842:
'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much in it, one wd yearn to see cast out of it,
in reverence to the unity of the whole [goes on to comment on text in further detail]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842:
'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two, or one, in a Review -- &
thought them abominable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Serial / periodical
Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843:
'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Barons," is to be, he says,
the last of Bulwer's -- and seems a poor affair, if one may judge by the single extract I have
seen.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843:
'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the hardest & most laborious work passing
through his "Last of the Barons" (May it be the last of his romances wrought after such a
fashion!) [...] There are threads of golden beauty [...] the sub-stuff being strong, & stiff, &
useful -- very good stout history [...] but as for romance & poetic Art, the Goddess of useful
knowledge has set her face against them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter postmarked 13 August] -- but I must keep that word of words, "genius" -- for something different -- "talent" will do here surely.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Book
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter postmarked 13 August] -- but I must keep that word of words, "genius" -- for something different -- "talent" will do here surely.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am reading "Shirley", and am interested -- only it does not seem to me equally suggestive of power (so far) with Jane Eyre.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Print: Book
'Harold'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
