SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

»Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »"A Deeper Wrong": Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rape and Infanticide.« 80^th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Atlanta 2014.

Aurora Leigh

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Aurora Leigh is an 1856 verse novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the Sibylline Books). It is a first-person narration, from the point of view of Aurora; its other heroine, Marian Erle, is an abused self-taught child of itinerant parents. The poem is set in Florence, Malvern, London and Paris. The work references Biblical and classical history and mythology, as well as modern novels, such as Corinne ou l'Italie by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and the novels of George Sand.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^st Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Lawson, Kate, et al. The marked body. Domestic violence in mid-nineteenth-century literature. Albany 2002.

[Info] Lewis, Linda M. »Rape and resurrection in Aurora Leigh.« Studies in Browning and his circle 19 (1991): 56-65.

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Spectacularly Conceived: Sexual Violence and Burdened Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina, 2017.

[Info] Thorne-Murphy, Leslee. »Prostitute rescue, rape, and poetic inspiration in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "Aurora Leigh".« Women’s writing 12 (2005): 241-257.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Gravitt, Bryn. »Rape and the Marriage Plot in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh.« 51^st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston 2020.

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Spectacularly Conceived: Sexual Violence and Burdened Motherhood in The History of Mary Prince and Aurora Leigh.« 48^th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2017.

Poetry

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^st Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Sexual Assault

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Gaya, Alexander. The Gendered Depiction of Violence in the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti. 2016.

II. Speaker Index

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^st Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Sexual Assault

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Spectacularly Conceived: Sexual Violence and Burdened Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina, 2017.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Rape and the Pleasures of the Spectacle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”.« 13^th Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association. Honolulu 2015.