United States Magazine and Democratic Review

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's American publisher was the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, located in Washington, D.C. The journal published political propaganda as well as literature. The magazine published writings from American literary figures such as Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others. In the preface to the American edition she writes, "My love and admiration have belonged to the great American people, as long as I have felt proud of being an Englishwoman, and almost as long as I have loved poetry itself." 

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Publication of A Drama of Exile in America

Jul 1844 to Aug 1844

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's first publication of A Drama of Exile was by an American press: United States Magazine and Democratic Review. A Drama of Exile was the first poem in her collection of poetry that was published in two installments in America (July and August 1844). The collection was entitled A Drama of Exile: And Other Poems, further illustrating her statement in the Preface that it was "the longest and most important work (to me!) which I ever trusted into the current publication." Fun fact: Edgar Allan Poe was one of her biggest fans in America.

The attached picture is from the preface of the George G. Harrap & Co. 1900 edition of A Drama of Exile held in the Armstrong Browning Library's rare item archives.

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Publication of A Drama of Exile in America

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's first publication of A Drama of Exile was by an American press: United States Magazine and Democratic Review. A Drama of Exile was the first poem in her collection of poetry that was published in two installments in America (July and August 1844). The collection was entitled A Drama of Exile: And Other Poems, further illustrating her statement in the Preface that it was "the longest and most important work (to me!) which I ever trusted into the current publication." Fun fact: Edgar Allan Poe was one of her biggest fans in America.

The attached picture is from the preface of the George G. Harrap & Co. 1900 edition of A Drama of Exile held in the Armstrong Browning Library's rare item archives.