Love Letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert
Finally, no one can separate us. I won the right to love openly, with a love that others define
even a 'duty' ...
However, even if it was a 'sin', I'd love too!
Elizabeth, British poet, falls in love with the poet Robert Browning, six years younger.
The letter dated 14 September 1846 shows that the two were able to marry,
despite opposition from parents.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet.
was born in 1806 in Durham. He lived a privileged childhood with his eleven brothers. His father had made his fortune thanks to the sugar plantations in Jamaica and had bought a large estate in Malvern Hills, where Elizabeth spent her time riding horses and setting up the theater with his family.
Elizabeth, not yet an adult, he had read the Latin authors, Milton, Shakespeare and Dante. At the age of twelve he wrote an epic poem. His passion for the classics and metaphysics was balanced by a strong religious spirit.
Between 1832 and 1837, following financial difficulties, the Barrett family moved three times before finally settling in London. In 1838 the collection was published The Seraphim and Other Poems. At the same time, Elizabeth Barrett had serious health problems that made it invalid in the legs and forced her to stay at home and attend only two or three people in addition to family members.
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