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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning GUIDE TO THE YEAR’S WORK /293 BEVERLY TAYLOR In the latest volume of The Brownings’ Correspondence, volume 22 (Winfield, KS: Wedgestone Press, 2015), editors Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan, Joseph Phelan, and Rhian Williams again set the benchmark for scholarly editions, providing impeccable texts and rich explanatory notes, selections from related correspondence as Supporting Documents, and an indispensable collection of book reviews of works by both Brownings. Volume 22 includes letters written by and to the Brownings from November 1855 to June 1856, when they resided in Paris between two summer trips to London. The principal cultural topics in EBB’s letters include spiritualists and séances experienced by their friends and acquaintances, and the qualities and effects of the French government of Louis Napoleon, who retained the presidency by coup d’état and then through a plebiscite became Emperor Napoleon III. In personal terms, much of this cor- respondence initially dwells on their misery in a disastrously cold set of rooms which a friend had leased for them in Paris—a habitation where EBB spent weeks coughing and spitting blood—and their subsequent liberation, when their rental agreement expired in December 1855, to an exceedingly comfortable, light, and warm apartment which they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Victorian Poetry , Volume 53 (3) – Jan 21, 2016

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GUIDE TO THE YEAR’S WORK /293 BEVERLY TAYLOR In the latest volume of The Brownings’ Correspondence, volume 22 (Winfield, KS: Wedgestone Press, 2015), editors Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Edward Hagan, Joseph Phelan, and Rhian Williams again set the benchmark for scholarly editions, providing impeccable texts and rich explanatory notes, selections from related correspondence as Supporting Documents, and an indispensable collection of book reviews of works by both Brownings. Volume 22 includes letters written by and to the Brownings from November 1855 to June 1856, when they resided in Paris between two summer trips to London. The principal cultural topics in EBB’s letters include spiritualists and séances experienced by their friends and acquaintances, and the qualities and effects of the French government of Louis Napoleon, who retained the presidency by coup d’état and then through a plebiscite became Emperor Napoleon III. In personal terms, much of this cor- respondence initially dwells on their misery in a disastrously cold set of rooms which a friend had leased for them in Paris—a habitation where EBB spent weeks coughing and spitting blood—and their subsequent liberation, when their rental agreement expired in December 1855, to an exceedingly comfortable, light, and warm apartment which they

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