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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861), English poet, wife of the poet Robert Browning, was born probably at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, for this was the home of her father and mother for some time after their marriage in 1805.
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 Malvern Hills.
Browning was six years younger than the woman he so passionately admired, and he at first believed her to be confined by some hopeless physical injury to her sofa.
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning @ SelectPicks.com (Select Picks)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was a member of the Barrett family and one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett) was born at Cohnadatia Hall (now demolished) near Durham, England in 1806, the daughter of Creole plantation owner Edward Moulton-Barrett, who assumed the last name "Barrett" on succeeding to the estates of his grandfather in Jamaica.
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.
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 AllRefer.com - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
The volume was a favorite of the poet Robert Browning, and he began to correspond with her.
Browning recovered her health in Italy, and her work as a poet gained in strength and significance.
Browning was considered a better poet than her husband.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Elizabeth Barrett Browning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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.
The political edge to much of Barrett Browning's work, especially in the poems written at the peak of her career, comes from a conflict between the middle-class drive to individual success and her own consciousness of the restrictions to individual effort on the basis of race and sex.
In her earliest years as a poet, Elizabeth Barrett sought to overcome the restrictions placed on women poets by proving her scholarship and imitating the English Neo-classical poets.
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was a member of the Barrett family and the most respected poetess of the Victorian era.
She was born at Cohnadatia Hall (now demolished) near Durham, England in 1806, the daughter of Edward Barrett, who assumed the last name on succeeding to the estates of his grandfather in Jamaica.
Mary Russell Mitford thus describes her as a young woman: "A slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on each side of a most expressive face; large, tender eyes, richly fringed by dark eyelashes, and a smile like a sunbeam."
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poet, born 6 March 1806, Author of Aurora Leigh and wife of Robert Browning
Ethnology and biography: the case of the Brownings.(Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning)(Critical Essay)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italian independence, and the "Critical Reaction" of Henry James.
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