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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2), by Frederic G. Kenyon This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Author: Frederic G. Kenyon Release Date: July 25, 2004 [EBook #13018] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BROWNING LETTERS, VOL. 1 *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Ingram, Bill Hershey and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: Elizabeth Barrett Browning] THE LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING EDITED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ADDITIONS BY FREDERIC G. KENYON _WITH PORTRAITS_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I. _THIRD EDITION_ 1898 PREFACE The writer of any narrative of Mrs. Browning's life, or the editor of a collection of her letters, is met at the outset of his task by the knowledge that both Mrs. Browning herself and her husband more than, once expressed their strong dislike of any such publicity in regard to matters of a personal and private character affecting themselves. The fact that expressions to this effect are publicly extant is one which has to be faced or evaded; but if it could not be fairly faced, and the apparent difficulty removed, the present volumes would never have seen the light. It would be a poor qualification for the task of preparing a record of Mrs. Browning's life, to be willing therein to do violence to her own expressed wishes and those of her husband. But the expressions to which reference has been made are limited, either formally or by implication, to publications made during their own lifetime. They shrank, as any sensitive person must shrink, from seeing their private lives, their personal characteristics, above all, their sorrows and bereavements, offered to the inspection and criticism of the general public; and it was to such publications that their protests referred. They could not but be aware that the details of their lives would be of interest to the public which read and admired their works, and there is evidence that they recognised that the public has some claims with regard to writers who have appealed to, and partly lived by,
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