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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poe…
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culture · English poet (1806–1861) · poet · screenwriter · essayist · pamphleteer · translator · writer · abolitionist · also Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elisabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Mrs. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née Barrett, Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
Born 6 March 1806 · Died 29 June 1861 · Q228494
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2025· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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2021· 4 entries
The Guardian: ‘My Elizabeth Barrett Browning film needs a woman’s touch – but where are all the female directors?’
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: Sonnet from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Guardian: Two Way Mirror by Fiona Sampson review – a fine life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Guardian: What we can learn from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's years in lockdown
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elizabeth Barrett Browning letter describing lonely quarantine up for sale
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's five best poems
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Robert Browning – a poet worth remembering | Margaret Reynolds
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2010· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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1892· 1 entry
Ledbury, Herefordshire, held a design competition to build an Institute in honour of Barrett Browning
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1861· 5 entries
Died 1861-06-29.
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“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”
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“Since when was genius found respectable?”
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“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”
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“smilingly, happily, and with a face like a girl”
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1855· 1 entry
"I belong to a family of West Indian slaveholders, and if I believed in curses, I should be afraid"
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1849· 2 entries
Met Margaret Fuller; Carlyle in 1851; French novelist George Sand in 1852, whom she had long admired
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At the age of 43, between four miscarriages, she gave birth to a son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, whom they called Pen
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1846· 1 entry
The couple moved to Italy, where she lived for the rest of her life
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1845· 1 entry
Barrett's willingness to engage in public discourse about social issues and about aesthetic issues in poetry, which had been so strong in her youth, gradually diminished, as did her physical health
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1844· 1 entry
Published the two-volume Poems, which included "A Drama of Exile", "A Vision of Poets", and "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and two substantial critical essays for 1842 issues of The Athenaeum
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1843· 1 entry
In Blackwood's, condemned child labour and helped bring about child-labour reforms by raising support for Lord Shaftesbury's Ten Hours Bill (1844)
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1838· 3 entries
And she wrote prolifically from 1841 to 1844, producing poetry, translation, and prose
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Some years after the sale of Hope End, the family settled at 50 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, London
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The Seraphim and Other Poems appeared, the first volume of Elizabeth's mature poetry to appear under her own name
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1831· 1 entry
Elizabeth's grandmother, Elizabeth Moulton, died
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1828· 1 entry
And is buried at St Michael's Church, Ledbury, next to her daughter Mary
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1826· 1 entry
And reflected her passion for Byron and Greek politics
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1820· 1 entry
Mr Barrett privately published The Battle of Marathon, an epic-style poem, but all copies remained within the family
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1809· 1 entry
The family moved to Hope End, a 500-acre (200 ha) estate near the Malvern Hills in Ledbury, Herefordshire
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1806· 1 entry
Born 1806-03-06.
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