1742580339000 1716556368000 Standard Record object-110010184 1747160955849 1721320363000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010184 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010184 5d41f6df-8fe6-3ef4-b452-6c4a406ec531 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa Length mm 209 Width mm 135 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from London, England. Barrett Browning says she writes to Blagden so she has her address and so Blagden doesn’t send her letters to the wrong place. She says they are coming to Florence and that it is amazing she hasn’t been reduced to a ‘shadow’ after the strain of the last year and climate. Blagden will have to wait for her to get a copy of the new book from England however, ‘I have been uneasy about my father—sad altogether—but he is better again—so I shall have rather less weight to carry away on my heart’. She has not received Mrs Norton’s letter. She discusses their travels around England with her siblings. They will then go to Paris, then Italy. She longs for a warm climate and feels bad for those suffering English weather. Miss Cushman and Hayes goes to Algiers (at the start of the letter Barrett Browning says they were on the verge of going to Algiers). The painter and radical Barbara Smith has already gone there with her invalid sister. Barrett Browning says ‘Bessie Parkes is writing very vigorous articles on the woman question, in opposition to Mr Patmore, poet & husband, who expounds infamous doctrines on the same subject—see ‘National Review’, —& sends them [‘]‘with the author’s regards” to Mrs Browning– Oh if you heard Bessie Parkes! she & the rest of us militant, foam with rage– But he’ll have the best of it as far as I am concerned: inasmuch as I hear he is to review in the North British my poor ‘Aurora Leigh,’ who has the unfeminine impropriety to express her opinion on various “abstract subjects,” —which Mr Patmore cant abide, he says’. Barrett Browning is glad Blagden likes the name Aurora Leigh. Her brother George says it is the strongest of her works but more indecent than Don Juan which amuses Barrett Browning. She mentions Mrs Parkes’ work on Gabriel as well as Lytton’s accident,. She says she hopes to find Mr Tennyson when they come to Florence. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 23, pp. 103–105 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2016). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 3899. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/56 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/56 110010184 priref 110010184 old reference no. Browning(EB)/111 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010184 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010184 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1856 1856 Monday. [20 October 1856] 1856-10-20 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT