1742580342000 1718189557000 Standard Record object-110010295 1747160956298 1721919346000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010295 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010295 bd963ab0-d534-3522-884f-04da27899bdb 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia person reference agent-130913 adlib-agent-130913 471d45df-11dc-3ffc-bc86-c8c8b3c7bf6a Story, William Wetmore Length mm 148 Width mm 91 Leaf 3 Length mm 179 Width mm 148 Leaf 1 Length mm 179 Width mm 148 Leaf 2 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. Barrett Browning says Blagden is ‘out of spirits’ but must not compare herself to others. She appears to refer to the Dr Gryzanowski affair. Even though Blagden’s feelings ‘remained safe & whole—but the epidermis of the womanhood of us gets rubbed, irritated, by being thrust into certain positions’. Yet Barrett Browning says Blagden shouldn’t ‘get disgusted with Florence’ for this reason. She says that England will not suit Blagden though the literary networks in London are considerable. It is too large a city for people to see each other easily, unlike Florence. Moreover Blagden likes a view. Barrett Browning says the climate and that ‘long Italian residence’ ‘has disorganised [Blagden] socially for English habits of life’. She makes veiled negative reference to Sophia Eckley and praises Mr Story’s ‘African Sibyl’ (Libyan Sibyl): ‘The type of race is preserved, yet the beauty is gorgeous, & the poetical sentiment of high order–’. She thinks the Emperor should order it made in marble for Algeria and asks Blagden’s opinion in getting Fauvety to speak of it. She is not concerned by a recent ‘attack’ on Agnes Tremorne. She corrects Blagden's grammer, saying ‘Now you’re a regular authoress, I mean to use my axe freely on all your careless turns of style’. Barrett Browning asks what she will do if Blagden goes away and says if they take an apartment in Florence it will be a small one. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 29, pp. 104–106 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2023). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4887. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/167 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/167 110010295 priref 110010295 old reference no. Browning(EB)/143 old reference no. Browning(EB)/182 old reference no. Browning(EB)/198 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010295 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010295 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1861 1861 Tuesday– [30 April 1861] 1861-04-30 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT