Mrs. Browning's Female Friendship And Her Writings Under It's Influence

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was a great English woman poet in the 19^th century. Her writings are the best expressions of conventional Victorian woman affection. In the early writings, she expresses her natural emotions and initial self-consciousness, little by little, under the influence of her literary friends she conveys her individual quality of thought, experience, and emotion sincerely and completely. Of course, she fuses tact with honesty in her works too. And her wide reading is reflected in her numerous quotations in paragraphs. Writing from the heart, she often unfolds her own personality and true thought. She has very rich and gifted imaginations, which are all expressed in her poems. The study on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her writings has experienced a long time. In China, it began from 1930s when the forerunner in Chinese literature Wen Yiduo had translated her Sonnets from the Portuguese. In western countries, the study can be traced back to the second half of the 19^th century.Perhaps most of the critical works on Elizabeth Barrett and her writings in Chinese or western countries focus their attention on her love affairs with her husband, Robert Browning, their elopement, marriage, and especially her well-known work Sonnets from the Portuguese. But many scholars and critics also pay close attention to love and death — the two main literary topics in her writings. By absorbing other researchers' achievements, the purpose of this dissertation is to give an overall and generalized introduction of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's friendship with her contemporary poetesses and other main works, then give an analysis, and induce of the development of Elizabeth's mind and the change of her works under the influence of her several female friends by introducing her contact with them, and give readers an all-round and integral understanding to her various and complicated works, and let...