Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the subject of today’s Google Doodle, was one of the most accomplished poets of the Victorian area. Born in County Durham in 1806, her poetry was popular both in the ...

How, and why, do readers love Elizabeth Barrett Browning? A popular poet with an international following, a progressive thinker about women’s roles, children’s rights and slavery; a formal ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806, at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. She published numerous collections of poetry, including "Poems" (Edward Moxon, 1844), "Casa Guidi Windows ...

This week's poem is a wild, pagan dance – and shows ... makes the first set of pan-pipes from her new body). But Elizabeth Barrett Browning leaves out the nymph bit: here it’s a normal reed ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born 208 years ago today, was once so famous that her dog, Flush, was given a biography of his own by Virginia Woolf. Today we remember Barrett Browning primarily at ...

"Cheerfulness Taught by Reason" was published in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's book "A Drama of Exile: And Other Poems" (H.G. Langley, 1845). Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 at Coxhoe ...

The English-born poet and social campaigner Elizabeth Barrett Browning is the latest historical figure to be honoured with a Google Doodle. Born in County Durham in 1806 - one of 12 children - she ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, although a famous poet in her lifetime, has struggled to hold her rightful place in the literary canon. Poet Fiona Sampson’s new biography, Two-Way Mirror, the first of ...

By John Plotz TWO-WAY MIRROR The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning By Fiona Sampson Carol Ann Duffy became Britain’s first female poet laureate in 2009. More than a century and a half earlier ...