Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning is perhaps best known for her ‘Sonnets From the Portuguese’ and ‘Aurora Leigh’ as well as the love story between her and fellow poet Robert Browning.

Born in 1806, Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her first major collection, The Seraphim and Other Poems, in 1838. Her collection Poems (1844) caught the attention of fellow poet Robert Browning, whose admiring letter to her led to a lifelong romance and marriage.