Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 24 pages of information about the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 24 pages of information about the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Among all women poets of the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century, none was held in higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her views than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. During the years of her marriage to Robert Browning, her literary reputation far surpassed that of her poet-husband; when visitors came to their home in Florence, she was invariably the greater attraction. Both in England and in the United States she had a wide following among cultured readers. An example of the reach of her fame may be seen in the influence she had upon the recluse poet who lived in the rural college town of Amherst, Massachusetts. A framed portrait of Mrs. Browning hung in the bedroom of Emily Dickinson, whose life had been transfigured by the poetry of "that Foreign Lady." From the time when she had first become acquainted with...

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