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	Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was the most respected poetess of the Victorian era.
		In her early teens, Elizabeth contracted a lung complaint, possibly tuberculosis, although the exact nature has been the subject of much speculation, and was treated as an invalid by her parents.
		Barrett's means: he accordingly disposed of his estate and removed with his family first to Sidmouth and afterwards to London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning (1048 words)

	ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING - LoveToKnow Article on ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Elizabeth's childhood was passed in the country, chiefly at Hope End, a house bought by her father in the beautiful country in sight of the Malverii Hills.
		Elizabeth Barrett was much the companion of her father, who pleased himself with printing fifty copies of what she calls her " great epic of eleven or twelve years old, in four books "The Battle of Marathon (sent to the printer in 1819).
		Elizabeths two sisters had been permitted to know of the engagement, but not of the wedding, so that their fathers anger might not fall on them too heavily.
	22.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BROWNING_ELIZABETH_BARRETT.htm (3837 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England on March 6, 1806.
		Elizabeth and Robert kept their love a secret because Browning's father was vehemently opposed to the relationship.
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning died on June 29, 1861 in Florence.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/BrowningEB.html (493 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Elizabeth Barrett was born into a multi-millionaire (in modern terms) family whose fortune came from Jamaican sugar plantations worked, of course, by slaves.
		She was the eldest of twelve children of an autocratic father who forbade his children to marry, and from the beginning something of a child prodigy, highly intelligent, determined and dedicated to becoming a poet.
		.On June 29th 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning died at the age of 55 and she is buried in the old Protestant Cemetery in Florence.
	www.geocities.com /ebb_poetry/ebb.htm (490 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning biography
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning biography: she was an invalid, opiate addict and great poet.
		After their marriage the Barretts moved to Pisa, Italy, and it was there that Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point", in protest of slavery in the United States.
		On June 29, 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning suffered "a chill" and died at the age of 55 in the arms of her husband.
	mtmt.essortment.com /elizabethbarret_rysn.htm (940 words)

	Elizabeth "Ba" Barrett Browning
		Elizabeth Barrett was born 6 March 1806, eldest daughter of Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett.
		Elizabeth's health had taken a turn for the worse, and she was ordered to winter someplace warm.
		Elizabeth was reportedly desparate for a diagnosis of all her weird symptoms and was enraged at any suggestion that it was all in her head.
	incompetech.com /authors/ebrowning (1320 words)

	TheCriticalPoet - Featured Poet - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett was born March 6, 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England, the eldest of 12 children of an autocratic father who forbade his children to marry.
		Elizabeth Barrett-Browning was buried in the old Protestant Cemetery in Florence.
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning's reputation as a poet was higher than her husband's during her lifetime, then she lost favour.
	thecriticalpoet.tripod.com /browninge.htm (740 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806, in England, County Durham, to Mary Graham-Clarke and Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett, both of whom inherited wealth from the Jamaican sugar trade.
		Barrett understood this conflict first-hand, from a profound distaste for feminine pursuits combined with her poetic ambitions, and from her family's slave-owning past.
		Barrett was not alone among the Victorians in redefining epic: for her a true picture of contemporary reality will have an epic quality, even if the story takes place in a drawing room rather than on a battlefield.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=612 (1876 words)

	The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Her intellectual fascination with the classics and metaphysics was balanced by a religious obsession which she later described as "not the deep persuasion of the mild Christian but the wild visions of an enthusiast." (See Methodism for the connotations of "enthusiasm.") Her family attended services at the nearest Dissenting chapel, and Mr.
		Barrett's treatment of social injustice (the slave trade in America, the oppression of the Italians by the Austrians, the labor of children in the mines and the mills of England, and the restrictions placed upon women) is manifested in many of her poems.
		Barrett's popularity waned after her death, and late-Victorian critics argued that although much of her writing would be forgotten, she would be remembered for "The Cry of the Children", "Isobel's Child", "Bertha in the Lane", and most of all the Sonnets from the Portuguese.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/ebb/ebbio.html (1146 words)

	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The volume was a favorite of the poet Robert Browning, and he began to correspond with her.
		The two fell in love, but their courtship was secret because of the opposition of Elizabeth’s tyrannical father.
		1970), and M. Forster (1989); The Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (1985) by D. Karlin; studies by H. Cooper (1988) and G. Stephenson (1989); bibliography by W. Barnes (1967).
	www.bartleby.com /65/br/BrowningEB.html (362 words)

	CNN - Almanac - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - March 6, 1998
		Barrett's illness stemmed from a childhood virus likened to the measles from which she never fully recovered.
		Barrett, the fourth of twelve children, was a child prodigy, excelling at Latin and Greek, and able to read French, Italian, Portuguese and other languages.
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The University of Maryland
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9803/06/almanac.browning (390 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Elizabeth Browning's greatest work, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), is a sequence of love sonnets addresses to her husband.
		Elizabeth Browning was born in Coxhoe Hall, Durham.
		Elizabeth Browning's name was mentioned six years later in speculations about the successor of Wordsworth as the poet laureate.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.162 (612 words)

	[minstrels] How do I love thee? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		The oldest of twelve children, Elizabeth was the first in her family born in England in over two hundred years.
		Elizabeth and Robert, who was six years her junior, exchanged 574 letters over the next twenty months.
		Elizabeth's Sonnets from the Portuguese, dedicated to her husband and written in secret before her marriage, was published in 1850.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/269.html (1550 words)

	The Life of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born at Coxhoe Hall, near Durham.
		Elizabeth grew up in the west of England and was largely educated at home by a tutor, quickly learning French, Latin and Greek.
		Her family was still wealthy, but after a lawsuit the property and slaves in Jamaica from Edward Barrett's grandfather did not go directly in the hand of Edward and his brother.
	www.coursework.info /i/68361.html (511 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento: 'Aurora Leigh' and Other Poems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Elizabeth, cut to the quick, for she had already begun her sonnet cycle, did not tell him of these poems and waited to give them to him for years.
		Margaret's death in the ship 'Elizabeth', along with her child Angelo and the Marchese, seem to have them become as it were surrogates for Elizabeth and Pen and Bro, the second drowning cancelling out the first, and liberating Elizabeth to write, freeing her from guilt, giving her her Risorgimento.
		Elizabeth hated it, begging Robert not to be so obsessed with the 1698 legal documents of Guido Franceschini's trial for the murder of his wife Pompilia.
	www.umilta.net /ebb.html (5913 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street.
		She draws a picture of early Victorian family life and aims to show that Elizabeth was a considerable and dedicated poet, self-willed, witty and courageous.
		The story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has become part of literary mythology - the invalid kept locked up in Wimpole Street by a tyrannical father until her elopement and flight to Italy at the age of 40.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099768615 (538 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett-Browning \| Poet
		Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett was born on March 6, 1806 in Durham, England.
		Elizabeth began writing at a very young age, publishing her first works while in her teens.
		Elizabeth Barrett was a 39-year-old invalid and recluse when Browning came into her life, already in love with her from reading her poetry.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96mar/browning.html (380 words)

	Ebony: Two of world's greatest lovers - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning - were descendants of blacks - book sheds ...
		These letters, penned by Elizabeth Barrett herself, reveal the poet's anguish at her Black ancestry and her shame at her family's participation in the plantation system.
		Like Elizabeth, herself the subject of many paintings and sketches, Browning would have to wait until the invention of photography in the 1850s before his true features were accurately delineated for posterity.
		It was, after all, the 8,000-pound inheritance from her grandmother and her Uncle Samuel that allowed Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning to flee to Italy and to live, in comfort, during their 15-year marriage.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n7_v50/ai_16878140 (1336 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
		Two of world's greatest lovers - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning - were descendants of fls.
		Ethnology and biography: the case of the Brownings.(Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning)(Critical Essay) (Biography)
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italian independence, and the "Critical Reaction" of Henry James.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0809163.html (365 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Elizabeth Barrett was born at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England.
		She continued to live in the villa of Casa Guidi for the remainder of her life.
		In 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning died at the age of 55.
	www.cswnet.com /~erin/ebbbio.htm (265 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Allyn & Bacon / Longman Catalog
		Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most highly-regarded poets of the Victorian age, her stature within literary circles being so great that in 1850 she was seriously considered for the newly-vacated post of Poet Laureate.
		This volume provides an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning through a biographical survey, study of her poetry, its critical reception and an assessment of her influence on later poets.
		The book situates Elizabeth Barrett Browning within a broader historical, political and cultural context than has been achieved in other critical studies enabling a better understanding of her poetry.
	www.ablongman.com /catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0582404703,00.html (178 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Dared And Done : The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Defying her tyrannical father and in spite of poor health due to lung disease, English poet Elizabeth Barrett married poet-playwright Robert Browning in 1846 after a secret courtship, and they spent the next 15 years in Italy until her death.
		Pro-abolitionist Elizabeth's great-grandfather was a wealthy slaveholder in Jamaica, and the poet believed she had African blood.
		Elizabeth Barrett was a morphine-addicted invalid, totally under the control of her domineering father, when she arranged to secretly meet Robert Browning, whose poems she greatly admired.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679416021?v=glance (1718 words)

	Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It chronicles the Barretts' lives in Jamaica and on Wimpole Street, Robert and Elizabeth's secret courtship and marriage in London, Elizabeth's victory over the morphine upon which she had depended most of her life, the birth of their son, and the paths their respective literary careers took when they reached Italy.
		As for Elizabeth Barrett, the correspondence with a poet whom she had so long admired, and the relationship that developed, was life knocking on her door.
		Markus explores Elizabeth's ancestry, the family plantation in Jamaica, her father's racist fears concerning potential grandchildren, and the resulting restrictions made upon his children.
	www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/english/19c/books/book-0-8214-1246-9.html (543 words)

	Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
		Elizabeth Barrett was born near Durham on 6 March 1806, the eldest of twelve children.
		Elizabeth was a studious child, learning both Greek and Latin, and wrote verses from an early age, encouraged by her father.
		Although here were both literary and social opportunities, the city proved detrimental to Elizabeth's delicate health and she spent three unhappy years in Devon.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /browning.htm (607 words)

	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Elizabeth was the eldest child of Edward Barrett Moulton (later Edward Moulton Barrett).
		The ethereal English poet Elizabeth Barrett seemed to be resigned to a life of isolation and invalidism until she met a younger poet, Robert Browning, when she was 39 years old.
		Yet he wrote verse for more than 30 years before his talent was recognized, devoting half of that time to the care of his more famous wife, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016722?tocId=9016722 (789 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: B: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Elizabeth "Ba" Barrett Browning - An off-the-wall biography of Browning.
		Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Page - Includes selected poems, brief biographies, related links, magazine/journal articles, and a love letter written to Elizabeth Barrett by Robert Browning.
		Elizabeth Browning - Biography of the English poet and discussion of her works.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/B/Browning,_Elizabeth_Barrett (183 words)

	the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning - life story
		An English poet widely read by her contemporaries, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born the eldest of eleven children in Coxhoe Hall near Durham.
		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 invalid, but used her confinement to write Poems (1844) which was celebrated by all and which led to her introduction by letter to the poet Robert Browning.
	www.poemhunter.com /p/t/poet.asp?poet=3035&show=bio (436 words)

	IHAS: Poet
		Made an invalid as much by a back injury she suffered as a youth as by the controlling presence of her jealous father, EBB was a reclusive, bedridden spinster-poetess when Robert Browning initiated a correspondence with her in 1845.
		Elizabeth published SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1850), CASA GUIDI WINDOWS (1851) and AURORA LEIGH(1857), as well as a collection of poems that were published posthumously; Robert found a new mature voice in CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (1850) and MEN AND WOMEN (1855).
		When Elizabeth died in her husband's arms in 1861, Robert Browning decided to return with his son to England where his poetry found increasing favor as he experimented with new forms.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/poet/browning.html (620 words)

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