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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the most famous woman poet. Elizabeth was born 1806, March 6 in Durham, England. She started writing at a young age. She had bad health ever since she was born. She married by age forty to Robert Browning and they moved to Italy. They spent happy years together but when Elizabeth died in 1861, her husband lived thirty years after and never remarried. She had her first work published when she was barely a teenager. And in the mid-1840’s, she wrote her collection “Sonnets” from the “Portuguese” to express the love for her husband. That poem has become one of the most famous expressions of love ever written. In 1838, she made “The Seraphim and other poems” appear. Many things influenced Elizabeth Browning’s writing.

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