1742580342000 1718188026000 Standard Record object-110010292 1747160956166 1721919208000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010292 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010292 20ebc1de-36f6-3ff6-b485-d36aca52db62 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209864 adlib-agent-209864 2429577b-20a8-3527-89a7-0c56dd7726d8 Bulwer-Lytton, Rosina person reference agent-209866 adlib-agent-209866 d0991856-6498-3225-95ec-da2866ae99cc Eliot, George person reference agent-209870 adlib-agent-209870 c3fb9cb1-1874-39b1-b870-20c2f89240dd Fauvety, Charles person reference agent-189765 adlib-agent-189765 202d621a-1be1-38f1-b930-fd7c6846a7ea Dall'Ongaro, Francesco Length mm 190 Width mm 126 Leaf 2 Length mm 244 Width mm 191 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning appears shocked by Blagden’s assertion that she may not like Blagden's book or find it “too romantic”: ‘Have I said or done anything wrong, I wonder?'. She says they normally agree on books except Lytton’s recent work ‘Elisabetta Sirani’ which Barrett Browning still thinks is ‘poor’. She asks for the name of the poem in All the year round that Blagden has said she will also not like (“Adolfus, Duke of Guelders,” by Lytton). She says she liked the part of Agnes quoted in the Athenæum and that she is ‘very anxious’ to see the novel. She mentions Blagden’s lack of sympathy for Lady Lytton’s inability to accept a daughter in law such as Lytton’s former fiancée Carolina Groeninx van Zoelen. Barrett Browning says to Blagden that ‘you see England a little softened by time & distance’, and she ‘will repent IT ONCE’ if she goes back. She says they (the Brownings) may take rooms in Rome in the winter months but they will return to Florence in the summer; she cannot give up Florence. Unlike Blagden, Barrett Browning says would be happy to never be forced to leave Italy. She asks whether Blagden really has the ‘heart’ to ‘abandon’ them and to leave behind ‘this new-born nation’ and ‘go back to Queen Victoria & the “glorious constitution,” with church attached'. She also discusses how servant’s wages will be higher in England than Italy. She says she agrees with Blagden on Adam Bede and that they esteem George Eliot equally: ‘She is great’. Barrett Browning comments on the political situation and possibility of war. She mentions Fauvety, Mazzini and Garibaldi. She says she is in a ‘straight’ about asking Dall’Ongaro to be a translator feeling he is surely ‘too good’ for such work. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 74–77 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4874. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/164 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/164 110010292 priref 110010292 old reference no. Browning(EB)/147 old reference no. Browning(EB)/204 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010292 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010292 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 April 17 [1861] 1861-04-17 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT