Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning

 Elizabeth Barret Browning was born in [|Country Durham] on March 6, 1806. Educated by her brothers' tutor, she experienced a wealth of education which included reading many famous writers such as William Shakespeare and John Milton. She began writing at a young age and was published throughout her life and into her death. Her father published Elizabeth's first poem //The Battle of Marathon// as a birthday present when she turned fourteen. Elizabeth wrote many poems about the abolition of slavery and became very political. John Kenyon, one of her cousins, began introducing her to many poets that are today famous such as Williams Wordsworth, Samual Taylor Coleridge, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. She married fellow poet Robert Browning, six years younger than she, and he influenced many of her poems. __Sonnet 43__ came from a compilation of sonnets called //Sonnets of Portuguese.// Robert Browning uses the word "Portuguese" as a nickname for Elizabeth. Portuguese poet Luís de Camões influenced her poems as they are mostly written in the Portuguese style. The "thee" in "How do i love thee" is referring to Robert Browning. Once they were married, they lived in Italy until her death. Robert and She had a son named Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning. She continued to write and published many more poems including her second edition of //Poems//. After the consecutive deaths of her father and a close friend, Elizabeth's ailing condition worsened. She died on June 29, 1861 of unknown causes.