Harriet Goodhue Hosmer was a neoclassical sculptor, considered the most distinguished female sculptor in America during the 19th century. She is known as the first female professional sculptor. Among
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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1865, albumen print (carte-de-visite) by Black & Case
Harriet Hosmer, engraving by Augustus Robin (1873)
Harriet Hosmer, sculpturer, carte de visite c.1865
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed
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…Thackeray, the philosopher and feminist Frances Power Cobbe and the two female Georges, Eliot and Sand. When in Florence, she was frequently the guest of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning at Casa Guidi. She was very peculiar, but she seemed to be her actual self, and nothing affected or made up; so that, for my part…
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Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1859
Blue plaque outside "Belle Vue" in Sidmouth, Devon, where Elizabeth Barrett lived with her family from 1833 to 1835
Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett by Károly Brocky, c. 1839–1844