Thus sang the Muse of a great woman years ago; and now, alas ! she, who, with constant suffering of her own, was called upon to grieve often for the loss of near and dear ones, has suddenly gone from ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Today, March 6, is the 210th birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who ...

Glasses get lifted to Edgar Allen Poe during a traveling tour pairing Poe-themed cocktails with readings of his familiar writings.

Readers chiefly remember Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), whose two hundred seventeenth birthday we mark today, as a Victorian master of the sonnet. Many readers, familiar with her famous ...