Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet, political thinker, and feminist. She was born in 1806 and died in 1861. She began writing at a very young age, studying languages at home with her family. As a result of a childhood spinal injury and lung ailment she was incapacitated from 1838 to 1848. In 1845 Robert Browning, a poet, praised her poetry in a series of letters sent to her and in 1846 after a flurry of secret correspondence they married and settled in Florence, Italy. There she regained her health and had a son at age 43. In 1856 she wrote Aurora Leigh, in which she defends a woman's right to intellectual freedom and writes about
the concerns of the female artist.
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