1742580342000 1718189177000 Standard Record object-110010294 1747160956101 1721919283000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010294 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010294 6ff6d707-32fe-33b2-8f86-24796f817fb4 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-189765 adlib-agent-189765 202d621a-1be1-38f1-b930-fd7c6846a7ea Dall'Ongaro, Francesco Length mm 250 Width mm 193 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning says ‘I take heart & enclose my Italian—with the English poem .. that you may see both. Get Dall’Ongaro to look at it, & give an opinion whether it seems do-able and worth doing’, She explains her translation choices. She understands Dall’Ongaro may be too occupied to look at it and says Agnes Tremorne is a success and most novels aren’t such successes. She comments on the Italian political situation. She asks Blagden to thank Dall’Ongaro for his ‘kind note’ and thanks Blagden for the news from Naples. Thackeray has written a very kind note after having a poem of hers for four months explaining that he cannot ‘affront his readers’ chastity by publishing [the] poem’. Regarding this Barrett Browning says: ‘After all, I dont blame him– I dare say, it was not judiciously selected for the Cornhill on my part. Only I protest in the abstract against that stifling mask of hypocrisy, behind which consciences are simply suffocated. I am not a coarse woman, nor an unchaste woman. Let me say it– But the fear of plain words goes with the non-practise of plain virtues’. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 97–99 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4884. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/166 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/166 110010294 priref 110010294 old reference no. Browning(EB)/122 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010294 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010294 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 Thursday. [25 April 1861] 1861-04-25 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT