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    I chose to compare and contrast two women authors from different literary time periods.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) as a representative of the Victorian age (1832-1901) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) as the spokeswoman for the Modernist (1914-1939) mindset.  Being women in historical time periods that did not embrace the talents and gifts of women; they share many of the same issues and themes throughout their works - however, it is the age in which they wrote that shaped their expressions of these themes.  Although they lived only decades apart their worlds were remarkably different - their voices were muted or amplified according to the beat of society's drum.

Jane Addams, a pioneering social worker, helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America’s attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day, her accomplishments affected the philosophical, sociological, and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her societal contributions, culminating with the winning of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was already a published poet at the time she wrote Cry of the Children in 1843. “In 1838, The Seraphim and Other Poems appeared, the first volume of Elizabeth 's mature poetry” (Everett, 1). If fact, Browning was said to have written poetry as early as age six. Her collection of poetry written during her childhood years is one of the largest of all English writers. One notable poem written when she was just fourteen was called The Battle of Marathon: A poem.

In Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s letter in the direction of Napoleon III regarding the banishment of the French creator Victor Hugo, she used many exceptional strategies to try and pardon Hugo. some of tries encompass Browning trying to belittle Napoleon and using sarcasm about how she thinks he's a robust chief but then gives his terrible movements. near the cease of the letter, however, Browning includes her admiration in the direction of Napoleon III. on this letter, Browning has more than one records and other points wherein she will use to counter Napoleon’s emotions dealing with victor Hugo. The English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning honestly uses exceptional rhetorical techniques to petition Napoleon.

In Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning creates an independent, intelligent young woman. Barrett Browning successfully demonstrates the difficult obstacles women had to overcome in the Victorian period. There were preconceived ideas of what "proper" women were suppose to do with their life. Not that this idea has completely been surmounted in our time. Barrett Browning though is optimistic about the goals women can achieve. She wants to demonstrate to women that belief in themselves and their dreams is possible and preferable to the standard.

Elizabeth Barret Browning was born in 1806 in England. She lived the first twenty-six years of her life on her family’s estate, Hope’s End, in Herefordshire, England. Being from a wealthy family who made a fortune in Jamaica, she lived in luxury riding horses, making house calls, and hosting get-togethers with family friends. With a large private library, she spent much of her time reading classic literature and learning different languages. This somewhat carefree life was greatly affected when her mother died in 1826,

She says that she loves him to the depth and breadth and height, which indicated that her love is long lasting. The image “by sun and candlelight” that Barrett Browning creates, is that her love may be ordinary like the sun, but its continuous since the light keeps shining day and night, which is why she uses the candlelight to represent the light she has for him is still on at night. Another image that Barrett Browning conveys is “I love thee freely, as men strive for Right, I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise”. This line shows that her love for him is of her own free choice and she compares it to the nationalists that fight for their countries, indicating that their love is as strong as a person’s love is to their country. Barrett Browning also says, “I love thee with the passion, put to use/In my old greifs… and with my childhood’s faith” here, the poet redirected her emotions from her past concerns onto her love. She states that her she loves him with her childhood’s faith, which could mean that she loves him with unquestioning confidence, just like a naïve child might.

Time and time again, people throughout history have been faced with the opportunity to positively transform the world they know in opposition and turmoil for those around them and for the world’s future inhabitants. Too many have let that opportunity go as they watch injustice pass them by. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, however, did not let change escape her sight. She flourished in progressivism and jumped at the chance to make lives she never even knew, better. As an author, her Victorian Age poem speaks to intellectual minds and inspires otherwise hopeless ones, even today. Child labor, as it was, left a mark on far too many children that it never should have, but her poem relating their suffering leaves a mark on people even today; there

The story "Aurora Leigh" is the story of a fictional woman poet. This story was Elizabeth Barret Browning's greatest achievement. This was the first major poem in English Literature in which the heroine, just like the author was a woman writer. This story had a lot to do with Aurora as a rising poet in a society that did not except woman as artists. Society set a restriction on women because of the role that was put upon them. Society basically sets the women into an imprisonment.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet who was born March 6, 1806, Kelloe,United Kingdom, with eight brothers and three sisters which is a total of eleven siblings. Her parents were Mary Graham Clark and Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett. Elizabeth Barrett Browning has many books. She had four successful books that many people read. The first one is Sonnets from the Portuguese which was published in 1850. The second one is Aurora Leigh which was published in 1856. The third one was a book that had many of her poems in them which was called the last poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the last one was Caesar Guidi Windows and it seems like a good book, but I think I would be more interested in the book that has all the poems in them because I think she has a good one that I could use to help me when times get bad. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a great writer in her time. People still read her books and talk about her books and they also learn about her and what she wrote about and all that good stuff. She was also a pretty woman

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I love thee?" This poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of many she penned for her husband Robert Browning. Using the basic form of an Italian sonnet with its fourteen lines and strict rhyme scheme - she manages to produce a surprisingly passionate poem.

Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born March 6, 1806 in Durham, England to Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke. She was the eldest of twelve. Her father made the family fortune from a sugar plantation. In 1809, the Barretts moved to an estate called Hope End in England. Elizabeth Barrett’s childhood was spent happily at the family’s home in England. She had no formal education, learning solely from her brother’s tutor and from her continuous reading. She managed over the years to learn Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. She learned rapidly and began writing at an early age.

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The society around her attempted to suppress her creativity, yet she continued to fight against them through her words. In her poem “The Soul's Expression” she narrates her “struggle to deliver” what she believes to the extent that she has “stammering lips and [an] insufficient sound” (Browning “The Soul's Expression”). Through her poems she is able, to express her feelings of deprivation in regards to women’s basic human rights, which have been so intensely denied. Browning asserts herself as a strong, unconventional woman with a “right to work and be independent” (The British Library).

Browning wrote a volume of Byronic verse, titled, Incondita, at the age of twelve. He later destroyed it. In 1828, he enrolled at the University of London, but soon left, wanting to study and read at his own pace. In 1833, Browning anonymously published his first major published work, “Pauline,” and in 1840 he published “Sordello,” Browning published a series of eight pamphlets titled, Bells and Pomegranates from 1841 to 1845. Although, this work did not win critical esteem or popularity, it did gain the admiration of Elizabeth Barrett, who was a respected and popular poet in her own right. In 1844 she praised Browning in one of her works and received a grateful letter from him in response. They met in 1845, fell madly in love, and ignoring the disapproval of her father eloped to Italy in 1846. Their departure took place as planned on the morning of Sunday, 20, September, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, their maid Elizabeth Wilson, and their dog Flush, stepped ashore from the Southampton boat at Le Havre. They left behind them a very angry man (Karlin 169). In fact, Mr. Barrett returned Elizabeth’s letters unopened for the rest of her life. Her health improved in Italy and she gave birth to a son in 1849, Robert Wiedermann Barrett Browning. Perhaps, her best-known work, Sonnets to the Portuguese , a volume of poems to her husband was written during their years in Italy. She became ill in 1861, and after only fifteen glorious years together, she died