Character Quote by Mary Russell Mitford

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any…

— Mary Russell Mitford

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

— Dorothy Fields

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which…

— Marie Corelli

“...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print,…

— Carol Shields

“For many years, biographers and scholars, beginning with her great nephew James Austen-Leigh, presented her as a quiet, reserved, proper woman, but one has…

— bETH pATTILLO

“When she thought she was nearly finished, she noticed that the next shelf started up again with Browne. After that came Browning. She groaned,…

— Betty Smith

“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that,…

— Michael Cunningham

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely,…

— Dan Chaon

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

— Robert Boswell

There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the…

— Susanna Kearsley