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  • Good of Mr. Chorley (he is _good_) to place you face to face with Robert's books, and I am glad you like 'Colombe' and

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • Mrs. Browning alludes again to the performance of 'Colombe's Birthday:'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • What I hope is, that the poetical appreciation of 'Colombe' will give an impulse to the sale of the poems, which will be more acceptable to us than the other kind of success ....

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • To wait to a second page without thanking you for your kindness and sympathy about 'Colombe' does not do justice to the grateful sense I had of both at the time, and have now.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • Her husband's play, 'Colombe's Birthday,' was produced at the Haymarket Theatre during April, with Miss Faucit (Lady Martin) in the principal part; but the poet had no share in the production, and his literary activity must have been devoted to the composition of some of the fine poems which subsequently formed the two volumes of 'Men and Women,' which appeared in 1855.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • I am beginning to be anxious about 'Colombe's Birthday.'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • They were 'The Blot on the' Scutcheon, 'perhaps the finest of those actually fitted for the stage;' Colombe's Birthday ';' King Victor and King Charles ';' The Return of the Druses ';' Luria '; 'A Soul's

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Venice; life in Paris (1851); esteem for her husband's family; description of George Sand; the personal appearance of that lady; her impression of M. Joseph M.lsand; the first performance of 'Colombe's Birthday' (1853); Rome: death in the Story family;

    Life and Letters of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

  • G. Rossetti; again in Florence; production of 'Colombe's Birthday' (1853); again at Lucca, Mr. and Mrs.W. Story; first winter in Rome; the Kembles; again in London (1855): Tennyson, Ruskin [32]

    Life and Letters of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

  • Literary World, the Boston, U.S. (on 'Colombe's Birthday') [1]

    Life and Letters of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

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