The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1

· 1861

[Illustration: _Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett._ _at the age of nine._ _Engraved by G. Cooke from a Drawing by Charles Hayter._ London: Published by Smith, Elder & C^o. 15. Waterloo Place.] In a recent "Memoir of Elizabeth Barrett Browning," by John H. Ingram, it is observed that "such essays on her personal history as have appeared, either in England or elsewhere, are replete with mistakes or misstatements." For these he proposes to substitute "a correct if short memoir:" but, kindly and appreciative as may be Mr. Ingram's performance, there occur not a few passages in it equally "mistaken and misstated."…

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