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Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet and Activist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning may be the perfect example of the transient power of fame. In the mid-19th century, Browning was one of the most famous and influential writers of her time; writers such as Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe cited her influence on their own work. At one point, she was even a serious candidate for Poet Laureate of the United States despite the fact that she lived in Italy for the last few decades of her life. Her poems are still vibrantly alive in the modern age, including her most famous works, "Sonnet 43" (aka "How Do I Love Thee?") and the long, lush narrative poem "Aurora Leigh," considered an important proto-feminist work.
Fast Facts: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Full Name: Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett
- Born: March 6, 1806 in Durham, England
- Died: June 29, 1861 in Florence, Italy
- Parents: Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke
- Spouse: Robert Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: biography
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Biography Birth: 6th March 1806 Death: 29th June 1861 Father: Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett Mother: Mary Graham Clarke Spouse/Partners: Robert Browning (m. 1846-1861) Children: 1 Cause of death: Long illness. Famous Works: - 'How Do I Love Thee?'
- Aurora Leigh
- Sonnets from the Portuguese
Nationality: English Literary Period: Victorian Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was one of the most well-known and prolific English poets of the Victorian era. She was popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Her most famous works are Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), a collection of love poems about her early relationship with her husband, and Aurora Leigh (1857), an early feminist text.
Barrett Browning was born in 1806 to a wealthy family, whose fortune came from sugar plantations in Jamaica. She had a happy childhood at her fami
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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As a former daily newspaper journalist, I often engaged in vigorous debate with the better editors I was assigned to about whether the present or past tense creates greater reader impact when writing feature articles about living personalities. At first this might not seem to be a very relevant issue when considering the biography of a long-deceased Victorian poetess.
But I found Fiona Sampson's stunning TWO-WAY MIRROR so utterly captivating because Sampson, herself an accomplished UK poet, boldly uses the present tense to create striking immediacy in every twist and turn of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's extraordinary and often fraught life.
"...utterly captivating... Sampson brings Elizabeth Barrett Browning to life in a style that is both courageous and endearing..."
Throughout nine symbolically numbered Books (instead of chapters), whose subtitles suggest shared experience --- "How to be il