Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1806-03-06 - 1861-06-29
Biography
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), British poet and author
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 839
Abstract:
The Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection is a mixed-provenance collection of material by and related to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Series I, Robert Browning Papers, contains a few manuscripts by him, as well as many letters, most written after 1870. Recipients include Mrs. Bayne; Isabel Jane Blagden; Moncure Conway; Charles Deschamps; Frank Hill; William Charles Macready; Felix Moscheles, and William Wetmore Story. Letters to Browning include an...
Dates:
1835-1906 1850-1889, bulk 1850-1889
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 November 28?
Item — Box 1, Folder: 56.52
Call Number: MSS 47
Scope and Contents:
Rossetti tells Heaton that the subjects he is working on for inclusion in a new work by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, are The Palace of Art, Sir Galahad, The Lady of Shalott, Mariana in the South and possibly the Vision of Sin. He describes the drawing of the Palace of Art as being inspired by Tennyson's lines about St. Cecily and says it...
Dates:
1856 November 28?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 November 24
Item — Box 1, Folder: 55.57
Call Number: MSS 47
Scope and Contents:
Rossetti explains that he has been in Paris for the past ten days and so only just received Heaton's latest letter. Rossetti has heard from Ruskin that Heaton would prefer keeping the drawing from the Purgatorio of Rachel and Leah, or Matilda and Beatrice. Rossetti remarks that he has given Matilda and Beatrice the actions of Rachel and Leah and describes the two figures as "of an entirely Oriental character, as the real Rachel and...
Dates:
1855 November 24
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 February 9
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.3
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin has acquired Turner's Walls of Rome for Heaton, having "no hesitation in ranking this as among the nine or ten best vignettes which Turner ever executed." Ruskin comments on the qualities of the Walls of Rome and of the Berne. He recommends at once "to have these two vignettes framed so as not to touch the glass -- and pasted in at back to keep out Leeds smoke. The least yellowing in the...
Dates:
1855 February 9
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 March 4?
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.7
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin expresses his sympathy for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who is ill. Ruskin informs Heaton he will send her photographs which are to be copied in sepia, chalk or pencil "as if they were nature itself." Ruskin argues, against the "Masters", that this practice "will do more for a pupil than a years common teaching." Ruskin praises Turner's use of space and drawing of form, praising Walls of Rome as a better work than his ...
Dates:
1855 March 4?
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 late November
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.49
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin advises Heaton on the preservation of her recently acquired Turner pieces, stating that the Walls of Rome and St Angelo can be displayed, provided they are "securely pasted in at the back." He says that he would not expose the Parnassus at all, for fear of damage by gas. He tells Heaton that candlelight would not damage the works. Turner praises Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ...
Dates:
1856 late November
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 December 13
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.51
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin tells Heaton that he has been enjoying Turner's Aldborough at a viewing by Thomas Richmond. He remarks: "it is most beautiful and it gives [him] intense pleasure to have it a little while by [him]." Ruskin gives Heaton the dates for her vignettes (1832 and 1833), stating that the drawings date from about a year earlier. Ruskin comments that they "are characteristic of Turners late middle period when everybody was already mocking & laughing...
Dates:
1856 December 13
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1857 December 7
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.77
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin apologizes for not meeting Heaton when she was last in London. Ruskin describes the work he has being doing with regards to the National Gallery's Turner collection, saying he has been kept very busy. Ruskin says he will not prepare more than 1,000 for exhibition in the coming winter. Ruskin describes some of the works as "valueless in England -- but very valuable on the Continent in a few years." He tells Heaton he found "a very precious" sketch book containing...
Dates:
1857 December 7
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1858 November
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.78
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin says he had hoped to come into town but couldn't manage it. Ruskin says he can't believe that Heaton has returned home and is preparing to travel again in the time since they last met. Ruskin expresses his envy that Heaton was able to see the Brownings, remarking that he had sent a letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning a month ago but that he has no time to write letters at the moment. He asks Heaton to send his love to the Brownings and to tell them that he will write to them soon,...
Dates:
1858 November
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1862 late November?
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.112
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin tells Heaton that he's feeling better but still unable to talk to anyone. He tells Heaton he has her Hughes work (That was a Piedmontese) and praises the work as "exquisitely beautiful in the face of the woman." Ruskin vows to never criticize work by a living man but goes on to say that Hughes has not been true to Elizabeth Barret Browning's poem A Court Lady by failing to make the subject's dress grand enough. Ruskin...
Dates:
1862 late November?
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Abstract:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings,...
Dates:
1640-1983
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 47
Abstract:
The collection comprises 57 letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton written from 1855 to 1875 (the bulk from 1855 to 1864). The letters primarily pertain to works by Rossetti, including a number of his works commissioned by Heaton. Works referenced include: Beata Beatrix, Beloved, Bethlehem Gate, Dante’s dream at the time of the death of Beatrice, ...
Dates:
1855-1875
John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 46
Abstract:
The collection comprises letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton, written from 1855 to 1864.
Dates:
1850-1864, bulk 1855-1864