Browning,Elizabeth Barrett

Browning,Elizabeth Barrett
Brown·ing (brouʹnĭng), Elizabeth Barrett. 1806-1861.
British poet. Overcoming ill health and the jealous objections of her tyrannical father, she eloped to Italy with Robert Browning and married him in 1846. Her greatest work, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), is a sequence of love poems written to her husband.

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  • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett — ► (1806 61) Poetisa británica, autora de delicados versos (Sonetos del portugués, 1847). Entre sus otras obras destaca Cosa Guidi windows (1851). * * * orig. Elizabeth Barrett (6 mar. 1806, cerca de Durham, Inglaterra–29 jun. 1861, Florencia,… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett — (1806 1861)    Poetess, was the dau. of Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, who assumed the last name on succeeding to the estates of his grandfather in Jamaica. She was b. at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, but spent her youth at Hope End, near Great Malvern.… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning — noun English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806 1861) • Syn: ↑Browning • Instance Hypernyms: ↑poet * * * Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Elizabeth Barrett Browning] …   Useful english dictionary

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