Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born March 6, 1806 in Durham, England.

The eldest of 12 children.

By the age of twelve she had written an "epic" poem consisting of four books of rhyming couplets.

Elizabeth suffered a chronic lung ailment.

She spent most of her time in a darkened room writing poety and many letters.

The famous English poet Robert Browning admired her "Poems" (1844) so much that he wrote to her.

They met, fell in love, and were secretly married in 1846.

They moved to Florence, Italy.

She took up contemporary issues including the Italian Nationalist cause, the abolition of slavery in the United States, and the position of women in Victorian society.

Elizabeth died on June 29, 1861.



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