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<p>The story of the Brownings is one of the strangest love stories of literature. Elizabeth Barrett was a thirty-nine year old invalid when Robert Browning, six years younger than she, stormed impetuously into her life. She was already a well known author; he was a rising but scarcely recognized poet. Born in Durham, March 6, 1806, the eldest of eleven children, Elizabeth was extraordinarily precocious. She read Greek at eight; at twelve she wrote an "epic" in four books, The Battle of Marathon, which her father had printed. At fifteen she injured her spine, either by a fall from a horse or by strain caused by tightening the saddle girths. A persistent cough kept her confined in London with occasional visits to the seashore. The death of her beloved brother by drowning and her father's jealous possessiveness plunged her into a half real, half-enforced melancholy. Approaching her forties, she seemed destined for a life of shrouded invalidism.</p> <p>Her father, Edward Moulton Barrett, has been pictured as a cruel and almost tyrannical parent. Besier's popular play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, presents him in the light of a villain, violent and even vindictive, a man from whom hi

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Author

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Louis Untermeyer, Barrett-browning, Elizabeth, Browning, Robert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning

Publisher

BARNESS & NOBLE

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566198073

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Anthology

Rating

4.19 / 5 (300 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13