Elizabeth Browning's Life and Accomplishments

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Elizabeth Barrett-Browning was a famous poet in Durham, England and Florence, Italy. She was a woman without education; yet, she still has achieved her goal to be a poet. (3) She started writing poems when she was twelve years old. The poem she wrote when she was twelve was called The Battle of Marathon. (1) That sonnet was published when she was fourteen years old. It was published by her father.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning was born in Kelloe Durham, England on March 6, 1806. She was the oldest out of twelve. (2) Her and her siblings were born at Coxhoe hall. She was born in a writing family. Her family wrote poems and published it. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (1806-1861) married Robert Brown (1812-1858) on September 12, 1846 at St. Marylebone Parish Church. Their family was known for knowing many languages.

Elizabeth did not attend any school, but was homeschooled. Her brother went to school and had a tutor after school. Elizabeth would sit down with her brother and get tutored too. They were tutored for Latin and Greek. Elizabeth read voraciously in history, philosophy, and literature. She writes that at six was reading novels, at eight she was entranced by Pope’s translations of Homer, studying greek at ten and writing her own Homeric epic The Battle of Marathon.

Elizabeth has written some poems at the age of twelve. The poem she wrote at the age of twelve was published when she was fourteen. On her fourteenth birthday, her father gave her fifty copies of The Battle of Marathon. Her father than published her poem. After that publication, the family then called her ‘Poet Laureate of Hope End’. They called her ‘Poet Laureate of Hope End’ because the result of her work was one of the largest collections of juvenili...

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...cial injustice, including slavery in the United States, injustice towards Italian citizens by foreign rulers, and child labour. In Lilian Whiting’s 1899 biography of Elizabeth she describes her as “the most philosophical poet” and depicts her life as a “Gospel of applied Christianity.” Leighton cites the 1931 play by Rudolf Besier,

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3) "Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.

4) Geraldine, Lady. "Lady Geraldine's Courtship : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Biography." Lady Geraldine's Courtship : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Biography. Stockton New Jersey Distinctive Public College, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014.

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