Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote memorable love poems.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806. Her collection ‘An Essay on Mind with Other Poems’, appeared in 1826, when she was twenty.
The poem ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ made her famous. ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, is another of her major work. She also wrote ‘Aurora Leigh’. ‘Aurora Leigh’, is now regarded as one of the early feminist texts.
She was acquainted with Robert Browning, another great poet through frequent letters, and later, they got married. Elizabeth’s wedding did not go down well with her father, and he disinherited her.
The poet couple moved to Pisa. There, she attacked slavery in the United States by writing ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’. Elizabeth Browning passed away in 1861. Elizabeth Browning’s work influenced Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, her contemporaries.