68-1445: (Redirected from EBB ) [REDACTED] Look up ebb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ebb , EBB or Ebbs may refer to: People [ edit ] E.B.B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet Ebb Ebb Cade (1890–1953), American construction worker and medical test subject Ebb Caraway (1905–1975), U.S. baseball player and American football player Ebb Rose (1925–2007), American racecar driver J. Ebb Duncan (1909–1980), American politician Fred Ebb (1928–2004), American lyricist Karl Ebb (1896–1988), Finnish athlete and racing driver Ken Ebb , Australian rugby league footballer Kimberley Ebb (born 1987), Australian rules footballer Martin Ebb (born 1965), Australian rugby league footballer Milou Ebb (1934—2009), French Polynesian politician Ebbs Anne Ebbs (née Sinnott; 1940–2024), Irish Paralympic table tennis medallist John Charles Ebbs , Canadian politician Places [ edit ] Al Ebb (Arabic: العب ), Al Daayen, Qatar Ebbs , Tyrol, Austria Ebbw Vale Town railway station (station code EBB ), Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales Entebbe International Airport (IATA airport code EBB ), Entebbe, Uganda École Belge Burundi ,
136-406: A Congregationalist : "I am not a Baptist — but a Congregational Christian, — in the holding of my private opinions." In 1892, Ledbury, Herefordshire, held a design competition to build an Institute in honour of Barrett Browning. Brightwen Binyon beat 44 other designs. It was based on the timber-framed Market House, which was opposite the site, and was completed in 1896. However, Nikolaus Pevsner
204-995: A Belgian international school in Bujumbura, Burundi HMS John Ebbs , a WW2 warship Other uses [ edit ] Ebb (spacecraft) , one of the spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Ebb tide European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "ebb" , "e-b-b" , "e-bb" , "eb-b" , or "ebb's" on Misplaced Pages. [REDACTED] Search for "ebbs" , "e-b-b-s" , "ebbses" , "e-bbs" , or "ebb-s" on Misplaced Pages. Ebbs Shore, Ontario , Canada Ebbe Ebby Ebb and flow (disambiguation) Ebb Tide (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Ebb All pages with titles containing Ebbs All pages with titles containing Ebb Topics referred to by
272-409: A copy to him as "a tribute of admiration & respect", which began a correspondence between them. "Since she was not burdened with any domestic duties expected of her sisters, Barrett Browning could now devote herself entirely to the life of the mind, cultivating an enormous correspondence, reading widely". Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate in 1850 on
340-524: A face like a girl's...Her last word was...'Beautiful' ". She was buried in the Protestant English Cemetery of Florence . "On Monday July 1 the shops in the area around Casa Guidi were closed, while Elizabeth was mourned with unusual demonstrations." The nature of her illness is still unclear. Some modern scientists speculate her illness may have been hypokalemic periodic paralysis , a genetic disorder that causes weakness and many of
408-451: A family friend in that first week of her life, she was baptised again, more publicly, on 10 February 1808 at Kelloe parish church, at the same time as her younger brother, Edward (known as Bro). He had been born in June 1807, 15 months after Elizabeth's stated date of birth. A private christening might seem unlikely for a family of standing, and while Bro's birth was celebrated with a holiday on
476-409: A female writer making her way in life, balancing work and love, and based on Elizabeth's own experiences. Aurora Leigh was an important influence on Susan B. Anthony 's thinking about the traditional roles of women, with regard to marriage versus independent individuality. The North American Review praised Elizabeth's poem: "Mrs. Browning's poems are, in all respects, the utterance of a woman — of
544-466: A hothouse, and a subterranean passage from house to gardens. Her time at Hope End inspired her in later life to write Aurora Leigh (1856), her most ambitious work, which went through more than 20 editions by 1900, but none from 1905 to 1978. She was educated at home and tutored by Daniel McSwiney with her oldest brother. She began writing verses at the age of four. During the Hope End period, she
612-541: A physical being, she was becoming a shadow of herself." The courtship and marriage between Robert Browning and Elizabeth were made secretly as she knew her father would disapprove. After a private marriage at St Marylebone Parish Church , they honeymooned in Paris and then moved to Italy in September 1846, which became their home almost continuously until her death. Elizabeth's loyal lady's maid Elizabeth Wilson witnessed
680-544: A reminder of just how close to the surface bed rock remains. The Mississippi River and the Rideau River have extensive areas of wetland. The less flooded areas tend to have silver maple swamp, while lower on the shoreline are marshes and aquatic plants. One of the largest wetlands is the Innisville wetland, a provincially significant wetland that formed upstream from Mississippi Lake . Other familiar wetlands include
748-442: A rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth . Elizabeth's volume Poems (1844) brought her great success, attracting the admiration of the writer Robert Browning . Their correspondence, courtship, and marriage were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. Following the wedding, she was indeed disinherited by her father. In 1846, the couple moved to Italy , where she lived for
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#1732800847273816-600: A sailing accident in Torquay in July. These events had a serious effect on her already fragile health. She felt guilty as her father had disapproved of Edward's trip to Torquay. She wrote to Mitford: "That was a very near escape from madness, absolute hopeless madness". The family returned to Wimpole Street in 1841. At Wimpole Street, Elizabeth spent most of her time in her upstairs room. Her health began to improve, but she saw few people other than her immediate family. One of those
884-408: A smile like a sunbeam." At about this time, Elizabeth began to battle an illness, which the medical science of the time was unable to diagnose. All three sisters came down with the syndrome, but it lasted only with Elizabeth. She had intense head and spinal pain with loss of mobility. Various biographies link this to a riding accident at the time (she fell while trying to dismount a horse), but there
952-517: A surname. In some cases, inheritance was given on condition that the name was used by the beneficiary; the British upper class had long encouraged this sort of name changing . Given this strong tradition, Elizabeth used "Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett" on legal documents, and before she was married, she often signed herself "Elizabeth Barrett Barrett" or "EBB" (initials which she was able to keep after her wedding). Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett
1020-462: A woman of great learning, rich experience, and powerful genius, uniting to her woman's nature the strength which is sometimes thought peculiar to a man." Much of Barrett Browning's work carries a religious theme. She had read and studied such works as Milton 's Paradise Lost and Dante 's Inferno . She says in her writing, "We want the sense of the saturation of Christ's blood upon the souls of our poets, that it may cry through them in answer to
1088-401: Is debate about the origin of the title. Some say it refers to the series of sonnets of the 16th-century Portuguese poet Luís de Camões . However, "my little Portuguese" was a pet name that Browning had adopted for Elizabeth and this may have some connection. The verse-novel Aurora Leigh , her most ambitious and perhaps the most popular of her longer poems, appeared in 1856. It is the story of
1156-589: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era , popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following
1224-641: Is gently rolling Canadian shield, predominantly gneiss. The valleys often have clay or sand deposits from events near the end of the last ice age. At one point near the end of the last ice age, the Champlain Sea flooded the Ottawa valley as far inland as what is now the town of Perth. West of Perth along Highway 7 one can see a remnant of this clay plain. An old shoreline of the Champlain Sea crosses Highway 7 near Ramsay Concession 2 before winding south into Drummond/North Elmsley. North of Perth, this clay plain
1292-811: Is in dispute, but her position on slavery in the poems is clear and may have led to a rift between Elizabeth and her father. She wrote to John Ruskin in 1855 "I belong to a family of West Indian slaveholders, and if I believed in curses, I should be afraid". Her father and uncle were unaffected by the Baptist War (1831–1832) and continued to own slaves until passage of the Slavery Abolition Act. In London, John Kenyon introduced Elizabeth to literary figures including William Wordsworth , Mary Russell Mitford , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Alfred Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle . Elizabeth continued to write, contributing "The Romaunt of Margaret", "The Romaunt of
1360-547: Is no evidence to support the link. Sent to recover at the Gloucester spa, she was treated – in the absence of symptoms supporting another diagnosis – for a spinal problem. This illness continued for the rest of her life, and it is believed to be unrelated to the lung disease which she developed in 1837. She began to take opiates for the pain, laudanum (an opium concoction) followed by morphine, then commonly prescribed. She became dependent on them for much of her adulthood;
1428-468: Is occupied by the huge Blueberry Marsh. The hard rock and thin soil produced distinctive deciduous forests dominated by maple, oak, beech, ash and pine. Southern trees like hickory and butternut are less common. Wetter areas have elm, silver maple and white cedar. Hemlock was much more common in the past, but logging for bark used in tanning has much depleted this species. Only a few large hemlock stands remain, although there are many scattered trees through
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#17328008472731496-410: Is the highest – we can conceive of nothing more august. Her sense of Art is pure in itself." In return, she praised The Raven , and Poe dedicated his 1845 collection The Raven and Other Poems to her, referring to her as "the noblest of her sex". Barrett Browning's poetry greatly influenced Emily Dickinson , who admired her as a woman of achievement. Her popularity in the United States and Britain
1564-622: The Villa Alberti . Engrossed in Italian politics, she issued a small volume of political poems titled Poems before Congress (1860) "most of which were written to express her sympathy with the Italian cause after the outbreak of fighting in 1859 ". They caused a furore in Britain, and the conservative magazines Blackwood's and the Saturday Review labelled her a fanatic. She dedicated this book to her husband. Her last work
1632-847: The colony of Jamaica since 1655, though her father chose to raise his family in England, while his business enterprises remained in Jamaica. Their wealth derived primarily from the ownership of slave plantations in the British West Indies . Edward Barrett owned 10,000 acres (40 km ) of land in the estates of Cinnamon Hill , Cornwall , Cambridge and Oxford in northern Jamaica. Elizabeth's maternal grandfather owned sugar plantations , sugar cane mills , glassworks and merchant ships which traded between Jamaica and Newcastle upon Tyne . The family wished to hand down their name, stipulating that Barrett always should be held as
1700-463: The 1931 play by Rudolf Besier The Barretts of Wimpole Street as evidence that 20th-century literary criticism of Barrett Browning's work has suffered more as a result of her popularity than poetic ineptitude. The play was popularized by actress Katharine Cornell , for whom it became a signature role. It was an enormous success, both artistically and commercially, and was revived several times and adapted twice into movies. Sampson, however, considers
1768-666: The Child Jesus" allude to Miriam, sister and caregiver to Moses. These allusions to Miriam in both poems mirror the way in which Barrett Browning herself drew from Jewish history, while distancing herself from it, in order to maintain the cultural norms of a Christian woman poet of the Victorian Age. In the correspondence Barrett Browning kept with the Reverend William Merry from 1843 to 1844 on predestination and salvation by works, she identifies herself as
1836-516: The Page", "The Poet's Vow" and other pieces to various periodicals. She corresponded with other writers, including Mary Russell Mitford , who became a close friend and who supported Elizabeth's literary ambitions. In 1838 The Seraphim and Other Poems appeared, the first volume of Elizabeth's mature poetry to appear under her own name. Sonnets from the Portuguese was published in 1850. There
1904-605: The Portuguese , 1845 (published 1850) Barrett Browning was widely popular in the United Kingdom and the United States during her lifetime. Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by her poem Lady Geraldine's Courtship and specifically borrowed the poem's metre for his poem The Raven . Poe had reviewed Barrett Browning's work in the January 1845 issue of the Broadway Journal , writing that "her poetic inspiration
1972-566: The Tay Marsh [1] (south of Perth) and The Swale (near Smiths Falls). Both rivers are popular with canoeists and naturalists. [2] [3] Smaller wetlands occur throughout the county; many are produced by beavers. Beaver ponds are an important as they provide habitat for a great many kinds of species, including frogs, turtles, otters, muskrats and migratory waterfowl. Beaver ponds provide a cycle of flooding, from shallow water through to wet meadow , and most phases of pond ecology can be seen driving
2040-587: The age of 43, between four miscarriages, she gave birth to a son, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning , whom they called Pen. Their son later married, but had no legitimate children. At her husband's insistence, Elizabeth's second edition of Poems included her love sonnets; as a result, her popularity increased (as did critical regard), and her artistic position was confirmed. During the years of her marriage, her literary reputation far surpassed that of her poet-husband; when visitors came to their home in Florence, she
2108-629: The attention of Hugh Stuart Boyd , a blind scholar of the Greek language, and of Uvedale Price , another Greek scholar, with whom she maintained sustained correspondence. Among other neighbours was Mrs James Martin from Colwall, with whom she corresponded throughout her life. Later, at Boyd's suggestion, she translated Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound (published in 1833; retranslated in 1850). During their friendship, Barrett studied Greek literature, including Homer , Pindar and Aristophanes . Elizabeth opposed slavery and published two poems highlighting
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2176-641: The barbarity of the institution and her support for the abolitionist cause: "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" and "A Curse for a Nation". The first depicts an enslaved woman whipped, raped, and made pregnant cursing her enslavers. Elizabeth declared herself glad that the slaves were "virtually free" when the Slavery Abolition Act passed in the British Parliament despite the fact that her father believed that abolition would ruin his business. The date of publication of these poems
2244-520: The ceaseless wail of the Sphinx of our humanity, expounding agony into renovation. Something of this has been perceived in art when its glory was at the fullest. Something of a yearning after this may be seen among the Greek Christian poets , something which would have been much with a stronger faculty". She believed that "Christ's religion is essentially poetry – poetry glorified". She explored
2312-468: The child's poetry into collections of "Poems by Elizabeth B. Barrett". Her father called her the "Poet Laureate of Hope End" and encouraged her work. The result is one of the larger collections of juvenilia of any English writer. Mary Russell Mitford described the young Elizabeth at this time as having "a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on each side of a most expressive face; large, tender eyes, richly fringed by dark eyelashes, and
2380-432: The children, and she had clashes with Elizabeth's strong will. In 1831, Elizabeth's grandmother, Elizabeth Moulton, died. Following lawsuits and the abolition of slavery, Mr Barrett incurred great financial and investment losses that forced him to sell Hope End. Although the family was never poor, the place was seized and sold to satisfy creditors. Always secret in his financial dealings, he would not discuss his situation, and
2448-529: The classics and metaphysics was reflected in a religious intensity which she later described as "not the deep persuasion of the mild Christian but the wild visions of an enthusiast." The Barretts attended services at the nearest Dissenting chapel, and Edward was active in Bible and missionary societies . Elizabeth's mother died in 1828, and is buried at St Michael's Church, Ledbury, next to her daughter Mary. Sarah Graham-Clarke, Elizabeth's aunt, helped to care for
2516-527: The death of Wordsworth . A Royal Society of Arts blue plaque now commemorates Elizabeth at 50 Wimpole Street. Her 1844 volume Poems made her one of the more popular writers in the country and inspired Robert Browning to write to her. He wrote "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett," praising their "fresh strange music, the affluent language, the exquisite pathos and true new brave thought." Kenyon arranged for Browning to meet Elizabeth on 20 May 1845, in her rooms, and so began one of
2584-544: The ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Sonnet XLIII from Sonnets from
2652-478: The family was haunted by the idea that they might have to move to Jamaica. From 1833 to 1835, she was living with her family at Belle Vue in Sidmouth. The site has now been renamed Cedar Shade and redeveloped. A blue plaque at the entrance to the site attests to its previous existence. In 1838, some years after the sale of Hope End, the family settled at 50 Wimpole Street , Marylebone, London. During 1837–1838,
2720-491: The family's Caribbean plantations, Elizabeth's was not. Elizabeth was the eldest of 12 children (eight boys and four girls). Eleven lived to adulthood; one daughter died at the age of 3, when Elizabeth was 8. The children all had nicknames: Elizabeth was Ba. She rode her pony, went for family walks and picnics, socialised with other county families, and participated in home theatrical productions. Unlike her siblings, she immersed herself in books as often as she could get away from
2788-632: The feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham , the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis . She took laudanum for
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2856-534: The hamlet of Port Elmsley. The township, covering 366.03 km , was formed on January 1, 1998, through the merger of Drummond Township and North Elmsley Township. The township comprises the communities of Armstrong Corners, Balderson, Beveridge Locks, Cook's Shore, Craig Shore, Drummond Centre, Ebbs Shore, Elmgrove, Ferguson Falls, Glenview, Innisville, McCreary's Shore, McCulloughs Landing, McNaughton Shore, Port Elmsley, Prestonvale, Richardson, Rideau Ferry , Robertson's Shore and Wayside. The most common landscape
2924-455: The marriage and accompanied the couple to Italy. Mr Barrett disinherited Elizabeth as he did each of his children who married. Elizabeth had foreseen her father's anger but had not anticipated her brothers' rejection. As Elizabeth had some money of her own, the couple were reasonably comfortable in Italy. The Brownings were well respected and even famous. Elizabeth grew stronger, and in 1849, at
2992-736: The most famous courtships in literature. Elizabeth had produced a large amount of work, but Browning had a great influence on her subsequent writing as did she on his: Two of Barrett's most famous pieces were written after she met Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh . Robert's Men and Women is also a product of that time. Some critics state that her activity was, in some ways, in decay before she met Browning: "Until her relationship with Robert Browning began in 1845, Barrett's willingness to engage in public discourse about social issues and about aesthetic issues in poetry, which had been so strong in her youth, gradually diminished, as did her physical health. As an intellectual presence and
3060-620: The other symptoms she described. Barrett Browning's first known poem "On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man" was written at the age of 6 or 8. The manuscript, which protests against impressment , is currently in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library ; the exact date is controversial because the "2" in the date 1812 is written over something else that is scratched out. Her first independent publication
3128-489: The pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health. In the 1840s, Elizabeth was introduced to literary society through her distant cousin and patron John Kenyon . Her first adult collection of poems was published in 1838, and she wrote prolifically from 1841 to 1844, producing poetry, translation, and prose. She campaigned for the abolition of slavery , and her work helped influence reform in child labour legislation . Her prolific output made her
3196-591: The play to have been the most damaging cause of false myths about Elizabeth, and particularly the relationship with her, allegedly 'tyrannical', father. Ebbs Shore, Ontario Drummond/North Elmsley is a township in eastern Ontario , Canada in Lanark County . It is situated on the north shore of the Rideau River between the town of Perth and the town of Smiths Falls . It is a predominantly rural municipality. The township offices are located in
3264-532: The poet was struck with illness again, with symptoms today suggesting tuberculous ulceration of the lungs. The same year, at her physician's insistence, she moved from London to Torquay on the Devonshire coast. Her former home now forms part of the Regina Hotel. Two tragedies then struck. In February 1840, her brother Samuel died of a fever in Jamaica, then her favourite brother Edward (Bro) was drowned in
3332-574: The religious aspect in many of her poems, especially in her early work, such as the sonnets. She was interested in theological debate, had learned Hebrew and read the Hebrew Bible. Her seminal Aurora Leigh , for example, features religious imagery and allusion to the apocalypse. The critic Cynthia Scheinberg notes that female characters in Aurora Leigh and her earlier work "The Virgin Mary to
3400-461: The remaining forests. Natural forest fires from lightning created some fire barrens in the southern parts of the township. Generally speaking, settlers cleared the deeper pockets of soil, and the clay plains. This produced the distinctive landscape with fields surrounded by forested uplands. The stone piles along the edge of the field illustrate the labour involved in creating agricultural land here. The many outcrops of Canadian shield in fields are also
3468-460: The rest of her life. Elizabeth died in Florence in 1861. A collection of her later poems was published by her husband shortly after her death. They had a son, known as "Pen" ( Robert Barrett , 1849–1912). Pen devoted himself to painting until his eyesight began to fail later in life. He also built a large collection of manuscripts and memorabilia of his parents, but because he died intestate, it
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3604-465: The same time, she contributed critical prose pieces to Richard Henry Horne 's A New Spirit of the Age , including a laudatory essay on Thomas Carlyle . In 1844, she published the two-volume Poems , which included "A Drama of Exile", "A Vision of Poets", and "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and two substantial critical essays for 1842 issues of The Athenaeum . A self-proclaimed "adorer of Carlyle", she sent
3672-780: The social rituals of her family. In 1809, the family moved to Hope End , a 500-acre (200 ha) estate near the Malvern Hills in Ledbury , Herefordshire. Her father converted the Georgian house into stables and built a mansion of opulent Turkish design, which his wife described as something from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments . The interior's brass balustrades, mahogany doors inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and finely carved fireplaces were eventually complemented by lavish landscaping: ponds, grottos, kiosks, an ice house,
3740-423: The township from Perth towards Carleton Place . The east-west County Road 43 goes between Perth and Smiths Falls . The Rideau Trail passes through the township twice, between Smiths Falls and Perth and to the south of Perth . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Drummond/North Elmsley had a population of 8,183 living in 3,287 of its 3,708 total private dwellings,
3808-512: The township roads. Owing to its location—the combination of two large rivers, wetlands and forests—the county has a rich array of wildlife, and wildlife viewing is a popular activity. Significant animal species include the black rat snake (now officially renamed the Gray ratsnake by experts on this species) and the Blanding's turtle . [4] [5] The north-south Ontario Highway 7 passes through
3876-499: The use from an early age may well have contributed to her frail health. Biographers such as Alethea Hayter have suggested this dependency have contributed to the wild vividness of her imagination and the poetry that it produced. By 1821, she had read Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and she become a passionate supporter of Wollstonecraft's political ideas. The child's intellectual fascination with
3944-533: Was A Musical Instrument , published posthumously. Barrett Browning's sister Henrietta died in November 1860. The couple spent the winter of 1860–1861 in Rome where Barrett Browning's health deteriorated, and they returned to Florence in early June 1861. She became gradually weaker, using morphine to ease her pain. She died on 29 June 1861 in her husband's arms. Browning said that she died "smilingly, happily, and with
4012-726: Was "Stanzas Excited by Reflections on the Present State of Greece" in The New Monthly Magazine of May 1821; followed two months later by "Thoughts Awakened by Contemplating a Piece of the Palm which Grows on the Summit of the Acropolis at Athens". Her first collection of poems, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems, was published in 1826 and reflected her passion for Byron and Greek politics . Its publication drew
4080-704: Was John Kenyon, a wealthy friend and distant cousin of the family and patron of the arts. She received comfort from a spaniel named Flush, a gift from Mary Mitford. ( Virginia Woolf later fictionalised the life of the dog, making him the protagonist of her 1933 novel Flush: A Biography ). From 1841 to 1844, Elizabeth was prolific in poetry, translation, and prose. The poem The Cry of the Children , published in 1843 in Blackwood's , condemned child labour and helped bring about child-labour reforms by raising support for Lord Shaftesbury 's Ten Hours Bill (1844). About
4148-471: Was advanced by her stands against social injustice, including slavery in the United States , injustice toward Italians from their foreign rulers, and child labour. Lilian Whiting published a biography of Barrett Browning (1899) which describes her as "the most philosophical poet" and depicts her life as "a Gospel of applied Christianity". To Whiting, the term "art for art's sake" did not apply to Barrett Browning's work, as each poem, distinctively purposeful,
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#17328008472734216-425: Was an intensely studious, precocious child. She claimed that she was reading novels at age 6, having been entranced by Pope 's translations of Homer at age 8, studying Greek at age 10, and writing her own Homeric epic The Battle of Marathon: A Poem at age 11. In 1820, Mr Barrett privately published The Battle of Marathon , an epic-style poem, but all copies remained within the family. Her mother compiled
4284-570: Was born on (it is supposed) 6 March 1806 in Coxhoe Hall, between the villages of Coxhoe and Kelloe in County Durham, England. Her parents were Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke. However, biographers have suggested that, when she was christened on 9 March, she was already three or four months old, and that this was concealed because her parents had married only on 14 May 1805. Although she had already been baptised by
4352-401: Was borne of a more "honest vision". In this critical analysis, Whiting portrays Barrett Browning as a poet who uses knowledge of Classical literature with an "intuitive gift of spiritual divination". In Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Angela Leighton suggests that the portrayal of Barrett Browning as the "pious iconography of womanhood" has distracted us from her poetic achievements. Leighton cites
4420-423: Was invariably the greater attraction. The couple came to know a wide circle of artists and writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray , sculptor Harriet Hosmer (who, she wrote, seemed to be the "perfectly emancipated female") and Harriet Beecher Stowe . In 1849, she met Margaret Fuller ; Carlyle in 1851; French novelist George Sand in 1852, whom she had long admired. Among her intimate friends in Florence
4488-494: Was not impressed by its style. It was used as a public library from 1938 to 2021, when new library facilities were provided for the town, and is now the headquarters of the Ledbury Poetry Festival . It has been Grade II-listed since 2007. How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For
4556-649: Was sold by public auction to various bidders and then scattered upon his death. The Armstrong Browning Library has recovered some of his collection, and it now houses the world's largest collection of Browning memorabilia. Elizabeth's work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson . She is remembered for such poems as " How Do I Love Thee? " (Sonnet 43, 1845) and Aurora Leigh (1856). Elizabeth Barrett had both maternal and paternal family who profited from slavery. Her father's family had lived in
4624-514: Was the writer Isa Blagden , whom she encouraged to write novels. They met Alfred Tennyson in Paris, and John Forster , Samuel Rogers and the Carlyles in London, later befriending Charles Kingsley and John Ruskin . After the death of an old friend, G. B. Hunter, and then of her father, Barrett Browning's health started to deteriorate. The Brownings moved from Florence to Siena, residing at
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