Elizabeth Barret Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a plain woman of the Victorian Era that was most remarkably gifted. She "was destined to become known to the world"(Preston xi). Elizabeth Barrett Browning became known for her poetry, because she showed marriages were her women character were often left emotionally unstable.
In her book Recollections, Browning describes what poetry means to herself. She explained that it "became a distinct object with me; an object to read, think, and live for" (Preston xii). Browning was described as a strong woman-poet who had little to no training. She came from the "Italian hills into a prim English feminine household, and inevitably assuming there that attitude of superiority to everything about her which is so contrary to that of true genius" (Oliphant 1). According to L. Roberts Steven of The Critical Survey of Poetry, "Elizabeth Barrett Browning did not think it a kindness when critics praised her as a ‘woman poet'"(397). She wanted to be known as a......
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