Elizabeth Browning, formally Elizabeth Barrett, was born in Durham on the sixth of March 1806. She was the oldest of 12 children born to her parents Edward Barrett and Mary Graham Clark. Elizabeth had a hunger for knowledge early in her life and spent most of her time reading epic Greek poems, the Old Testament, and Dante's Inferno along with many other advanced pieces of work. All of these great works she read in their original language. She began writing her own epic poem at the age of 12. Her parents were highly encouraging of their daughter's thirst for knowledge and her father gave her a bound copy of her epic for her fourteenth birthday. She wrote many other poems throughout her young life which inspired Robert Browning to write to her and express his love for her work. They met shorty after and were married in August 1846.
Elizabeth Browning's poems were very popular and her major works included A Child Asleep, A Thought for a Lonely Death-bed, Change upon Change, Aurora Leigh and her earliest epic The Battle of Marathon along with many others. Although Elizabeth had been disinherited by her father (he did not give his permission for the Browning's marriage) she was one of few poets who had actually made money off her poems and she was able to make a living. The Browning had their son Robert Wiedemen Barrett Browning in 1849. Elizabeth fall fell ill to an uunknown sickness and died on June 29, 1861 in her husband's arms. Elizabeth Browning remained a popular poet throughout her life and far beyond her death.
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