This interactive map allows you to explore places related to exhibits in "The Brownings in Our World," an online exhibition created by students in a senior seminar on the Brownings (ENG 4364), taught by Dr. Joshua King at Baylor University in the fall of 2020. Click on the pins in the map to view locations and learn more about them.
The Brownings in Our World: An Online Exhibition Dashboard
Description
In fall of 2020, students in a senior seminar at Baylor University on Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning created "The Brownings in Our World," an online exhibition of related rare items, primarily from Baylor's Armstrong Browning Library. "The Brownings in Our World" is housed on separate website, but is linked to the timeline and map below, which allow viewers to explore places and events related to the exhibits.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
This timeline allows you to journey through events related to exhibits in "The Brownings in Our World," an online exhibition created by students in a senior seminar on the Brownings (ENG 4364), taught by Dr. Joshua King at Baylor University in the fall of 2020. Click the navigational arrow below to proceed.
Individual Entries
Plymouth Rock is the location that the narrator (the runaway slave) of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" escapes to from the Carribean. We can see that this location was symbolic and the connection between the runaway slave and the pilgrims who fled from religious persecution is clear, as the location does not make sense geographically.
Over one hundred years later, we are still wrestling with the questions about beauty similar to those raised by the Brownings and discussed in the exhibition. Bradley University from the state of Illinois created "The Body Project" in 2019, which educates students and others about the pressure of societal views and provides various information for their audience to understand and reflect on their own opinions of beauty. While not directly related to the Brownings, it displays their forward-thinking and questions about society that are still relevant to us.
The Cinnamon Hill Great House was the plantation owned by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's family for a century. It is through the money procured by the Cinnamon Hill Plantation that Elizabeth and Robert Browning are able to make their escape to Italy in 1846, where Elizabeth will write one of her most famous works, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point."
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a highly respected journal that feautured political essays. It was primarily a literary magazine that promoted the development of American literature. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Drama of Exile" was originally issued in two differernt installments in the July and August 1844 issues of this magazine.
It was in Rome that Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning each composed his/her poem for Two Poems, the pamphlet that would be sold in support of English Ragged Schools. The location of the composition is significant to both poems, for in both Elizabeth's "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" and in Robert's "The Twins," the narrator acts as an individual from Italy viewing England from an outside perspective.