The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning w/ Prefatory Memoir

How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43) is probably Barrett Browning's most famous poem today. The victim of a thousand wedding readings, it is part of her Sonnets from the Portuguese cycle, and was written during her courtship with Robert Browning. Elizabeth Barrett was born in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England, in 1806. Most of her childhood was spent on her father’s estate, reading the classics and writing poetry. An injury to her spine when she was fifteen, the shock of her brother’s death by drowning in 1840 and an ogre-like father made her life dark. But she read and wrote, and no little volume of verse ever produced a richer return than her Poems of 1844. Robert Browning read the poems, liked them, and came to her rescue like Prince Charming in the fairy story. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were married on September 12, 1846. Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in Florence, Italy, in 1861. Title Poetical Works Author Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edition illustrated BOOK CONDITION Hardcover with no sleeve jacket available. Leather bound cover. Good antique condition. Pages are clean and crisp. Spine solidly in tact but it looks as though a little bird nibbled on the top of the spine. Pages are gold on the edging.