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And poets who write of the events of that time, shall not need to justify themselves in prefaces, for ever so little jarring of the national sentiment.


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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era, Born in County Durham, the eldest ofchildren, Browning was educated at home, She wrote poetry from around the age of six and this was compiled by her mother, comprising what is now one of the largest collections

extant of juvenilia by any English writer.
AtBrowning became ill, suffering from intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life, rendering her frail, She took laudanum for the pain, which may have led to a lifelong addiction and contributed to her weak health, In thes Barretts cousin John Kenyon introduced her to prominent literary figures of the day such as William Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
Born in County Durham, the eldest ofchildren, Browning was educated at home, She wrote poetry from around the age of six and this was compiled by her mother, comprising what is now one of the largest collections extant of juvenilia by any English writer.
AtBrowning became ill, suffering from intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life, rendering her frail, She took laudanum for the pain, which may have led to a lifelong addiction and contributed to her weak health, In thes Barrett's cousin John Kenyon introduced her to prominent literary figures of the day such as William Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Carlyle.
Browning's first adult collection The Seraphim and Other Poems was published in, During this time she contracted a disease, possibly tuberculosis, which weakened her further, Living at Wimpole Street, in London, Browning wrote prolifically betweenand, producing poetry, translation and prose, She campaigned for the abolition of slavery and her work helped influence reform in child labour legislation, Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth, Browning's volume Poemsbrought her great success, During this time she met and corresponded with the writer Robert Browning, who admired her work, The courtship and marriage between the two were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval, Following the wedding she was disinherited by her father and rejected by her brothers, The couple moved to Italy in, where she would live for the rest of her life, They had one son, Robert Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen, Towards the end of her life, her lung function worsened, and she died in Florence in, A collection of her last poems was published by her husband shortly after her death, Browning was brought up in a strongly religious household, and much of her work carries a Christian theme, Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, She is remembered for such poems as "How Do I Love Thee" Sonnet,and Aurora Leigh, sitelink.