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Shilstone, F.W.(1996). Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. In World Book Encyclopedia (Volume 2, pp. 655-656). Chicago: World Book, Inc. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the best-known poets of her time. The oldest of twelve children in an upper middle-class family, she received no formal education, but a desire for knowledge enabled her to l ...

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... from the poet Robert Browning, who, after five months of correspondence, paid her a visit. They fell in love, and when Elizabeth’s stern father refused to allow her to spend the winter of 1846 in Italy as her doctors had advised, she and Browning “married secretly” there (Shilstone, 1996, p.656). In 1849, their son was born, whom they nicknamed Pen. Elizabeth Barrett Browning used many different emotions when writing her poetry. In the collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1 ...