Female : Poet. Spinal injury in a fall from a pony meant she never went to school. Secretly married Robert Browning in 1846. Her father never saw her again. They lived in Italy. Died of TB in her husband's arms and is buried in Florence.

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Coxhoe Hall, Kelloe, Co Durham

Date of Birth : 1806 Date of Death : 1861 Age : 55

Pseudonyms : E B Barrett

1820-1830
The Battle of Marathon (1820 PP)
[Her father paid for this to be published when she was just 14]
An Essay on Mind & Other Poems (1826) - Anon

1831-1840
(Trans) Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus & Miscellaneous Poems (1833) - Anon
The Seraphim & other Poems (1838 Saunders & Otley) - by Elizabeth B Barrett

1841-1850
A New Spirit of the Age (1844) - with R H Horne
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (1844 Moxon, London) - 2 vols
A Drama of Exile & other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
(1845 Henry G Langley, NY) - 2 vols. 1500
Sonnets by E B Browning (1847 PP) - same as "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1849)
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
[Consisting of 44 love poems to Robert Browning, this is considered her masterpiece]
Poems by E B Browning (1850 Chapman & Hall. New Ed) - 2 vols

1851-1860
Casa Guidi Windows : A Poem (1851 Chapman & Hall)
Prometheus Bound & Other Poems (1851 C S Francis, NY) - 1st Amer Ed
Two Poems (1854 C & H) - by EBR & RB. [A WISE FORGERY ]
Poems (1856 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Aurora Leigh (1857 Chapman & Hall) (1857 C S Francis, NY)
Napoleon III in Italy & other Poems (1860 C S Francis, NY)
Poems Before Congress (1860 Chapman & Hall)

1861-1870
Only a Curl (1861 PP in Baltimore)
Last Poems (1862 C & H) - edited by Robert Browning
The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (1863 Chapman & Hall)
- edited by Robert Browning
The Ring and the Book (1869 Fields, Osgood : Boston)

1871-1880
Aristophanaes' Apology (1875 Osgood, Boston)
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard Hengist Horne (1877 Bentley) - 2 vols
The Earlier Poems 1826-1833 (1878 Bartholemew, Robson)
The North and the South (c1880 London)

1881-1900
The Battle of Marathon : A Poem written in Early Youth
(1891 for Private distrib. Facsimile. London) - 50
Letters to Various Correspondents (1895-6) - edited by T J Wise
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1895 Ballantyne Press)
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1897) - 2 vols. Edited by F G Kenyon
The Letters of EBR and RB 1845-1846 (1899 London) (1899 Harper NY) - 2 vols
The Complete Poetical Works (1900 Houghton Mifflin)

20thC
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1906 Caradoc Press, London)
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1914 Riccardi Press for the Medici Society) - Ltd Ed 1000
The Poets' Enchiridion : A Hitherto Unpublished Poem (1914 Bibliophile Soc, Boston)
The Art of Scansion (1916 PP for Clement Shorter) - Ltd Ed 25
Letters to her Sister (1929) - edited by L Huxley
Twenty-Two Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning
(1935 United Feature Sysndicate, NY - 1188) (1936)
Letters from Elizabeth Barrett to B.R. Haydon (1939 OUP, NY)
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1945 Shakespeare Hd Press, Oxford)
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1948 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Valenti Angelo
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1962 Folio Society) - decorations by Reynolds Stone
Diary by E.B.B. : The Unpublished Diary (edited by Philip Kelly & Ronald Hudson)
(1969 Ohio UP)

READING
Dormer Creston : Andromeda in Wimpole Street - The Romance of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (1929)
Isabel C Clarke : Elizabeth Barrett Browning - A portrait (c1930 Hutchinson)
Warner Barnes : A Bibliography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1967 Univ of Texas) - 1000
Angela Leighton : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1986)
(Ed) Daniel Karlin : Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett - The Courtship Correspondence
(1987)
Margaret Forster : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1988)
(Eds) Philip Kelley & Ronald Huson : The Brownings Correspondence
Dorothy Mermin : Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Origins of a New Poetry (1989)
Glenis Stephenson : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Poetry of Love (1989)
Marjorie Stone : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992)
Julia Markus : Dared & Done - The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning
(1995 Bloomsbury £20)