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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or née
oetess, born at Carlton Hall, Durham; a woman of great natural abilities, which developed early; suffered from injury to her spine; went to Torquay for her health; witnessed the death by drowning of a brother, that gave her a shock the effect of which never left her; published in 1838 "The Seraphim," and in 1844 "The Cry of the Children"; fell in with and married Robert Browning in 1846, who immediately took her abroad, settling in Florence; wrote in 1850 "Sonnets from the Portuguese," in 1851 "Casa Guidi Windows," and in 1856 "Aurora Leigh," "a novel in verse," and in 1860 "Poems before Congress"; ranks high, if not highest, among the poetesses of England; she took an interest all through life in public affairs; her work is marked by musical diction, sensibility, knowledge, and imagination, which no poetess has rivalled (1806-1861).
Public Domain.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Browning, Elizabeth Barrett'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/browning-elizabeth-barrett.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
