Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett (1806-1861) was to become the wife of Robert Browning and one
of England's foremost poets.
Elizabeth was home schooled and in large part self educated with the help of self-chosen tutors. Elizabeth Barrett was an invalid for most of her life, but the nature of her health problems is obscure.
She is variously diagnosed with a lung ailment, nervous disorder and opium addiction.
In the 1840s, while being courted by fellow poet Robert Browning, she wrote a series of love
sonnets,
later thinly disguised as translations and published as "Sonnets from the Portuguese."
Though she is now best remembered for her "Sonnets from the Portuguese," she was an accomplished poet
before she had met Browning. Most of her work concerned political issues and problems of women in Victorian society.
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