![]() Very creative and intelligent, by the age of twelve Elizabeth was the author of an “epic” poem the length of four books of rhyming couplets.Įlizabeth Barrett’s father had paid for the publication of two of his daughter’s books before she was 20. However, Edward Barrett chose to raise his family in England, perhaps to distance them from the family’s source of wealth – plantations run by slave labor.Įlizabeth was educated at home, and in fact received a more wide-ranging education than many girls of her time. The Barretts were a wealthy part-Creole family whose Jamaican sugar plantations had sustained the family for centuries. Born in 1806 to Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett and Mary Graham-Clarke, Elizabeth Barrett was the oldest of 12 children, 11 of whom survived to adulthood. The epitome of the Victorian poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of few poets whose work was not only widely appreciated during her lifetime, but whose verses have also entered the language of popular culture in such a way that her poems seem to have lives of their own.Įlizabeth Barrett Browning’s life reads like the kind of mid-1930s Hollywood melodrama that it eventually was. ![]()
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