and would make a great movie; yet for nearly a century this public, active life has been turned inside out by a simpering caricature. The fictional “Elizabeth Barrett Browning” has been played ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yawn. That cloying love poem, “How do I love thee?” That portrait where she looks at us sideways, her heavy curls shadowing her face. A Victorian invalid who was th ...

So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning. Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming ...

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 ...

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 ...

So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning. Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming ...