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    The poem “How do I love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways”, was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1850. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 in England, as a child, she did not have the best childhood when she was growing up. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a young child when she was diagnosed with lung disease that required her to take medications for the rest of her life, and she had also suffered from an injury on her spinal cord when she was riding on her horse at the age of fifteen. The

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    “Elizabeth Barrett Browning” Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet who was born March 6, 1806, Kelloe,United Kingdom, with eight brothers and three sisters which is a total of eleven siblings. Her parents were Mary Graham Clark and Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett. Elizabeth Barrett Browning has many books. She had four successful books that many people read. The first one is Sonnets from the Portuguese which was published in 1850. The second one is Aurora Leigh which was published in 1856

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 in County Durham, England. She was the eldest of twelve children born to Edward Barrett Moulin Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or "Ba", grew up in her family’s estate Hope End, Henfordshire. They were part of the upper-middle class, owning a successful sugar trade. Elizabeth began writing at a very early age. When she was twelve her father had her first epic poem "The Battle of Marathon" privately

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an eminent poet of the Victorian era, suffered through a lung illness and a spinal chord injury that lasted in her being ill for most of her life. For this reason, she was living as an invalid for about seven years and during this time; she wrote a poem called A Dead Rose. This poem was written in order to present an aspect of her life and one of the struggles she had to suffer through in her lifetime. The speaker of this poem is Elizabeth herself, as it is about her

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Moulton

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    Light Tomorrow with Today, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Moulton. Believe that which you make in this life will always effect you in the end. Have you ever thought that, “I can do all things but fail”, always put that living light first, once you have applied that light, there is nothing you could possibly want. Elizabeth Browning – Moulton, imagined that one day one would put that beautiful light first in life, added things will keep coming in one’s favor. Elizabeth Barrett Moulton is known as one of

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    independence, courage, and accomplishments than Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She passionately wrote about the issues of social injustice and later on in her life she expressed her political opinions on the struggle with Italy and Austria. Elizabeth Barrett was born at Coxhoe Hall, England, on March 6, 1806. She is the daughter of Mary Graham Clarke and Edward Moulton Barrett, who obtained large amounts of money from his Jamaican sugar plantations. Elizabeth lived a very privileged childhood in the country

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. She was the eldest of eleven children born of Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett (DISCovering Authors). Her father was a “possessive and autocratic man loved by his children even though he rigidly controlled their lives” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Although he forbid his daughters to marry, he always managed to encourage their scholarly pursuits (DISCovering Authors). Her mother, Mary Graham-Clarke, was a prosperous

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian Era. She was born on March 6, 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. Barrett had a big family, she was the oldest out of 12 children. Her parents, Mary Graham Clarke and Edward Barrett, educated their children at home. The family made their money off of Jamaican sugar plantations and depended on slave labor. Barrett began her love for reading and writing poetry at a very young age. She began reading the classic

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    literary works usually describe the condition of their period directly or indirectly. The two authors, Roberts Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, also expose the culture and the condition of the society of the Victorian era through their works. The authors are married couple authors of the Victorian era. Roberts Browning’s a typical literary work is My Last Duchess. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s one of the most famous work is Aurora Leigh. In the two poems, the authors mainly focus on the different

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    19th century Elizabeth Barrett Browning, unlike many other women of her time, was known for being both experimental and controversial. Due to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s courage to voice her opinions on many of the social injustices happening during her time period, she was, and is greatly admired across the world (“Elizabeth Barrett Browning”). Throughout her life Elizabeth Barrett Browning experienced many events that shaped the woman and poet she was to become. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s passionate

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