The Poetry Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“ If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.” were words once said by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806 in Durham, England. She was the oldest out of twelve children born to Edward Barrett Moulton Browning and Mary Graham-Clark (Biography.com editors). It was said that she was the first to be born in over two hundred years in her family (Poets.org editors). She was deeply passionate about Religion and Italian politics (Biography.com editors). Browning wrote many poems that were focused on Christianity and Italian politics which made her a prominent poet in the Victorian Era. The Browning family gained their fortune from Jamaican sugar plantations that they owned. Edward and Mary Barrett used the money that they had earned from the Jamaican sugar plantations to help support their family of twelve children. Their sugar plantations in Jamaica relied on slave labor. Even though Edward, Elizabeth’s father had successful sugar plantations in Jamaica, he decided to raise his children in England. Elizabeth did not go to school as a child. …show more content…

An interesting fact that was found was that after Browning and Barrett got into a relationship they wrote and exchanged approximately 600 letters to each other in twenty months into their relationship. Browning and Barrett’s letter writing resulted in the two eloping in 1846. Barrett’s father disagreed and was very much against the two eloping causing him to never spoke to Barrett after that. Browning and Barrett’s marriage resulted in the birth of their only child by the name of Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning. He was born in Florence, Italy. Only after a short year, one of Barrett’s most famous works would be established and released to the public (biography.com

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