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Mrs. Sutherland Orr
1828–1903
Best remembered as one of Robert Browning’s earliest biographers, she helped shape how later readers understood the poet’s life and work. She also came from a highly artistic family and was painted more than once by her brother, Frederic Leighton.
2 Audiobooks
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
by Robert Browning, Mrs. Sutherland Orr
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
About the author
Born Alexandra Leighton on November 23, 1828, she later became known as Mrs. Sutherland Orr. She was the daughter of physician Sir James Boniface Leighton and the sister of the painter Frederic Leighton, which placed her in a lively artistic and intellectual circle.
She is most closely associated with Robert Browning. After Browning’s death, she wrote important biographical work on him, including Life and Letters of Robert Browning, and became an influential early interpreter of his life and writing.
Mrs. Sutherland Orr died on August 23, 1903. Though she is less widely known today than the figures around her, her books remain part of the history of Browning scholarship and of Victorian literary biography.