The text used in this Norton Critical Edition is the editor Margaret Reynold’s own variorum edition published in 1992 by Ohio University Press. Backgrounds and contexts include: a selection of letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning on Aurora Leigh ; the social commentary of Sarah Stickney Ellis, Dinah Mulock, Charles Fourier and William Rathbone Greg, among others; and 24 of the best critical essays written on the poem from the years 1856-1992.