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  • NAME: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • OCCUPATION: Poet
  • BIRTH DATE: March 06, 1806
  • DEATH DATE: June 29, 1861
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Durham, England
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Florence, Italy

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was best known for her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh, and her marriage to fellow poet Robert Browning.

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Born in 1806, Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her first major collection, The Seraphim and Other Poems, in 1838. Her Poems (1844) caught the attention of fellow poet Robert Browning, whose admiring letter led to a romance and marriage. The couple moved to Italy, where Elizabeth became interested in spiritualism and Italian politics, and released her popular work Aurora Leigh (1857).

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