Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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    <strong>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</strong> (1806-1861)

    An English poet widely read by her poraries, Elizabeth Barre<big></big>tt Browning was born the eldest of eleven children in Coxhoe Hall near Durham. The family moved to Hope End in Herefordshire in 1809 where Elizabeth spent her childhood. An avid reader, she was educated at home where her father gave her access to his classical library. Her first volume of poems rivately published when she was 14.

    She suffered from ill health for most of her life. Her mother died in 1828 and her father was forced to sell Hope End in 1832 during the Abolition movement with the result that the family moved to London. Ten years later Elizabeth was more or less an in<mark></mark>valid, but used her fio write

    Poems (1844) which was celebrated by all and which led to her introdu by letter to the poet Robert Browning. She also became a good friend of Miss Mitford at this time. On 12 September 1846 she destinely married Browning, and moved immediately to Italy. They settled in Florence, in Casa Guidi where in 1849 sh<a>９９ｌｉｂ?</a>e gave birth to a son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett

    Browning.

    Her health improved greatly during her years in Italy, allowio travel throughout Europe. By the time of the publication of Aurora Leigh, a poem dealing with the restris imposed on women by Victorian soci<kbd>９９lib.</kbd>ety, she was firmly established as a poet of distin. In fact, most of her work expresses her  for the liberal causes of her day, including the cause of Italian nationalism. The Sos from the Puese (1850) altered the ventions of the love so by the use of a tone of playful humour. In the last y<a></a>ears of her life she was influenced by the popular i in spiritualism. The Poems Before gress (1860), although written in her final years when her health was deteriorating, are said to tain some of her most forceful aiful lyrics.

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