"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a selection of private letters composed in the 1800's. It contains the deep and personal letters of the famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning, where she expresses her ideas, emotions, and what she went through during her important travels and moments in her life together with her husband, Robert Browning. The letters show her thinking about books and writing, political thoughts, along with personal stories, that give readers a detailed look at her personality and the time she lived in. As the volume begins, readers are transported into Elizabeth and Robert Browning's lives as they begin a long trip through Europe, starting in Florence. As they travel, they go to Venice and then to Milan, traveling across pretty lands while dealing with the challenges of travel, including her personal health concerns and the needs of her young child, Wiedeman. Elizabeth details her strong feelings of the cities they visit, thinking about both their artistic beauty and her own artistic work. For example, her poem "Casa Guidi Windows," explores Italian politics—which she shares probably does not get the widespread praise it should, showing her involvement with the troubled rules and society of that time.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2)
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Experience the intimate thoughts and travels of a celebrated poet, as revealed through her personal letters, filled with artistic reflection and political engagement during a transformative journey across Europe.
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About the AuthorElizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
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