Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare

For most of the twentieth century the exuberant
fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s art was not regarded as worthy of
serious attention. Even the evidence for the swiftness of her wit, thought and
composition remains more impressionistic and anecdotal than firmly proven.
Through close attention to original manuscript material, Josie Billington
argues that Barrett Browning''s fast, fine and excited...