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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806 in England. She was the first of twelve children. Her family were wealthy sugar plantation owners on the British held island of Jamaica Elizabeth was encouraged by her mother to learn several different languages and by the time she was six she knew French, Latin and Greek. In 1816, at age 10, Elizabeth was so proficient in French, she composed a classical French tragedy, Regulus. By the time she was twelve she was writing short novels and

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a passionate, praise riddled letter imploring Napoleon III to pardon Victor Hugo, a poet exiled for his works that were deemed critical of the government. Given that she is but a wife of an English poet, she first justifies her reach in writing this letter by explaining how she feels that her reading of such high and mighty men have equip her enough that she may dare write this letter. In fact, she takes advantage of the vast difference in status to reach him. Throughout

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning began her poetry career at a young age and continued to write until her death. A fiercely political mind, Browning wrote “The Cry of the Children” as a girl in protest of child labor in factories during the Industrial Revolution. She also wrote “A Curse for a Nation”, a notable poem for its condemnation of American slavery. Through her political writing, Browning used her voice as a poet to give women a mouthpiece on issues affecting them. Most importantly, however, are

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a remarkable woman who was deeply interested in reading grand pieces of literature and began writing her own literature at a very young age. She was very privileged to be financially independent, but also very unfortunate to have suffered an accident which resulted in great physical disadvantages. The combination of both, however, gave her the needed time to write her poetry. She fell in love with Robert Browning, a great admirer of her work, and, during their courtship

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    Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Virginia Woolf       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

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    This exploration paper concentrates on the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her endeavors in championing the privileges of the voiceless in the Italian culture through her beautiful works amid the mid Nineteenth Century. Critically, the paper will deliver the women's activist capacity to unfurl the predominant treacheries that have been disregarded after some time as exemplified by Elizabeth Barrett Browning who initiated social changes that tried to ensure the privileges of ladies and the

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    Female poets in the nineteenth century were small in number and Elizabeth created a path for herself and remained ambitious. Present day Feminists consider Elizabeth as an influential and independent voice of social issues, saying she anticipated movements to come. Not only were ladies discouraged from learning other languages and from reading "controversial" books at the time, they were also denied gaining a university education. Amid all female poets of the world in the nineteenth century, none

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    of Love In “Sonnet 43,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning utilizes imagery and tone to convey the intense love women have for their husbands through a more religious perspective. Throughout the poem Browning will reveal her love for her husband in multiple ways while trying to send a message through religious context. In other words, Browning uses imagery to help her readers get a better understanding of what her old life was like and what it is like now. For instance, Browning writes, “I love thee with

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    In Sonnet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the beloved wants the speaker to transcribe the feelings that she has for him in a sonnet. However, even though she knows that her feelings are real, she is not yet comfortable with declaring her love in such a way. In her sonnet, Browning compares what she is feeling to a lit torch in rough winds: “And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, / Between our faces, to cast light on each?— / I drop it at thy feet” (3-5). In this metaphor, the torch

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    In the poem ''Somet 43'' Elizabeth Barrett Browning, uses theme of love to express her feelings and thoughts to her husband. She also uses figurative language, like personification to express her thoughts. Another thing she uses is tone, because the way she says the poem would describe her feelings. Theme uses love to express her feelings towards her husband Robert Browning. She describes her love to her spouse. Elizabeth adores him. The poem states ''I love thee, purely, as they turn to Praise

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