SD2007. Lydia Maria Child to Marianne Cabot Silsbee

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 259–260 (in part).

Wayland,

Dec. 9th 1856.

… I am charmed with Mrs. Browning’s Aurora Leigh. It is full of strength and beauty; and it strikes at the artificial distinctions of society with a boldness that delights me. Verily, great is Elizabeth Browning! A Milton among women! How glad I am that genius is under the necessity of being ever on the free and progressive side! How I delight in having old fogies tormented, always and everywhere! …

Publication: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, ed. Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Kraus Microform, Millwood, New York, 1980, letter 965.

Manuscript: American Antiquarian Society.

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