Notebooks of Miss Elizabeth Barrett

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. e. 3383-5
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1847-48
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Notebooks of Elizabeth Barrett containing notes from Rollin's Ancient History, a translation of a French play and miscellaneous notes.

Administrative / Biographical History

As a child, Elizabeth Barrett (1833-1918) became the ward of her cousin, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett, the father of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who undertook much of her education. She later married one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's younger brothers, Alfred Price Moulton-Barrett.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

Given by Edward R. Moulton-Barrett, great-grandson of Miss Elizabeth Barrett, 1990 (see Bodleian Library Record, Vol. XIII (Apr. 1991) p. 507).

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection is available online at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollectionswmss/online/online.htm.

Subjects

Women