Elizabeth barret browning biography

English poet (–)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March – 29 June ) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.

Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the s and s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven.

Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life.

Elizabeth barrett browning biography

Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

In the s, Elizabeth was introduced to literary society through her distant cousin and patron John