Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)

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Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: Fifteen Years at Hull House (First of Three Installments), March 1906

Autobiographical Notes upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: A War Time Childhood, April 1910

Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett to Jane Addams, September 15, 1913

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Birth Date

1806-03-06

Death Date

1861-06-29

Birthplace

Kelloe, Durham, England

Biographical Text

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet during the Victorian Era. She began writing poetry when she was six years old, and was tutored privately in her home. She spent most of her time in the family household due to her frail health. Some of her most notable works include "The Cry of the Children" (1842), which condemned child labor and helped bring about child-labor reforms, a volume titled Poems (1844), and Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850).

Browning married Robert Browning in 1846. They had one child, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning. Browning died in 1861.

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Public domain

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Female

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1906

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“Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 27, 2024, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/4211.