![]() ![]() In 1826, Elizabeth anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. She became active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church. ![]() Accompanying her appetite for the classics was a passionate enthusiasm for her Christian faith. Throughout her teenage years, Elizabeth taught herself Hebrew so that she could read the Old Testament her interests later turned to Greek studies. ![]() Despite her ailments, her education continued to flourish. ![]() While saddling a pony when she was fifteen, Elizabeth also suffered a spinal injury. Doctors began treating her with morphine, which she would take until her death. Two years later, Elizabeth developed a lung ailment that plagued her for the rest of her life. By her twelfth year, she had written her first “ epic” poem, which consisted of four books of rhyming couplets. Educated at home, Elizabeth apparently had read passages from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and a number of Shakespearean plays, among other great works, before the age of ten. Elizabeth’s father, Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, chose to raise his family in England, while his fortune grew in Jamaica. For centuries, the Barrett family, who were part Creole, had lived in Jamaica, where they owned sugar plantations and relied on the forced labor of enslaved individuals. The oldest of twelve children, Elizabeth was the first in her family born in England in over two hundred years. Born on March 6, 1806, at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Romantic Movement. ![]()
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