Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Noun
Meaning
English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
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In 1850, after William Wordsworth's death and Samuel Rogers ' refusal, Tennyson was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been considered.
Little, Brown and Company (1899) In Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Angela Leighton suggests that the portrayal of Barrett Browning as the "pious iconography of womanhood" has distracted us from her poetic achievements.
London: Bartholomew Robson *1877: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, with comments on contemporaries, 2 vols., ed. S.R.T. Mayer.
London: Smith, Elder & Co. *1929: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Letters to Her Sister, 1846–1859, ed. Leonard Huxley.
One also wonders, we add, “how he and his equally sheltered wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, managed to produce a son.”