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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Profile |
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I heard an angel last night say, "Write!" |
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| Age: | 57 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Florence, |
| Country: |  Italy |
| Zodiac: |  Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20) |
| Last Login: | Oct 15, 2008 (406 days back) |
About Me |
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| Ah, my friends, Welcome to Casa Guidi ....Let me tell you a bit about myself, a poetess .. I was born in March on the sixth day of 1806 at my parent's estate in Durham, England .. I believe they said I was a precocious, bright and accomplished child. I've read a number of Shakespearian plays, parts of Pope's Homeric translations, passages from Paradise Lost, and the histories of England, Greece, and Rome before the age of ten. I was self-taught in almost every respect. During my teen years I read the principal Greek and Latin authors and Dante's Inferno -- all texts in the original languages. By the age of twelve, I wrote an "epic" poem consisting of four books of rhyming couplets. All I wanted to do was read and write, but I also loved riding horses and visiting family friends at my father's Estate, "Hope End". When I was 14, I fell from a horse, resulting in a spinal injury or some sort of mysterious illness which they never could figure out what it was exactly. It also affected my lungs. Yes, I was a little .. oh, very well, perhaps a little more than that .. addicted .. to morphine and opium (which they had prescribed to me), but what great poet wasn't in my day? Oh, bother... Might I mention I lost my beloved mother at this time, and that didn't help any.. Let me continue ...My father's unfortunate financial losses forced him to sell the estate .. in which we then lived at 50 Wimpole Street in London. This is where I stayed, lost "my dear bro", Edward .. and ultimately became a recluse upstairs with only my faithful dog, Flush and Wilson, my maid who also was my friend. True, I have had one or two callers from time to time ...That is when the love of my life entered into the picture.. I received a letter which began, "Dear Miss Barrett, I love your verses with all my heart - and I love you, too.. " Could this happen? Bah, but I have to admit, it intrigued me - the sincerity ... I could've been considered a spinster by now. I had all but waved off love at this point. I thought death was the only means of escaping this wretched place. My father had defiantly proclaimed anyone marrying another would be disinherited. But it was not death for me, no, "not death, but love.." I had loved his poetry already, and had written of him in one of my poems. That is one of the reasons he wrote to me. I wasn't sure what to make of those words from the first letter he had written, but it struck me to the core. His letter "threw me into ecstasies"! Not only was love here but we also shared intellectual conversations within these sealed letters - back and forth ... So many that ..when we finally eloped in September, to Florence, I wrote to him exclaiming, "Let the ounces cry out!" I had to bring them with me. Some of the only things I took with us. That is when we ..escaped to Italy, but I knew I would never speak to my father again. He never would. Our son, whom we called "Pen" (Robert Wiedemann-Barrett Browning), was born in 1849. Ah, but he was our pride and our joy! Yes, I coddled him. Who would have thought that I, yes, I.. of all women .. would have had a child. I rather liked him in his long locks, much to the eventual protest of my husband. And, still, my lungs, my health betrayed me .. though it is true that coming to Italy had benefited me tremendously .. It would always trevail. After the deaths of my sisters, and the eventual death of my father, I would become increasingly interested in.. the other side.. in spirituality... Perhaps because I also knew my own eventual outcome ... But I knew that it would not be the end ... And, finally, at the end of 1861, with my husband there beside me, holding me .. "Our lives are held by God!" said I, with a continued, "God bless you!" as I kissed him and the air, He did ask if I was comfortable, "Beautiful." I said, and with that, I passed into the spirit-world, at 4:30 am quite peacefully... ... Our maid, Annunziata, cried out, "This blessed spirit has passed!"Yet, I, dear ones.. still haunt ... | |
My Interests |
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I'd like to meet:Anyone who loves intellectual stimulation - voracious readers, loving poetry, philosophy, and politics. I would reply to all from these Casa Guidi Windows .. |
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Books:Pope, Dante Allegheri, Milton, Paine, Voltaire, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Homer, Pindar, Aristophanes, etc., R. Browning, Tennyson, Byron, Shelley, Keats .....~~The works of E.B.B. and Dates of Publication1826 - An Essay on Mind and Other Poems 1833 - Prometheus Bound 1838 - The Seraphim and Other Poems 1844 - Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 - Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (second edition) 1851 - Casa Guidi Windows 1857 - Aurora Leigh 1860 - Poems before Congress 1862 - Last Poems 1863 - The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets 1866 - Selections from poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1880 - Selections from poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (second series) 1890 - Poetical Works 1897 - Poetical Works~~ |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | London |
| Religion: | Protestant |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Occupation: | Poetess |
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My Blog |
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Casa Guidi and The Brownings |
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| Sophia Peabody Hawthorne described Casa Guidi:
. . . at eight we went to the illustrious Casa Guidi. We found a little boy in an upper hall . . . . In the dim light he looked like a waif of poetr... Posted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:22:00 PST |
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My Chronology |
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| 1806 Born Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett at Coxhoe Hall, County Durham. She is the oldest of twelve children. Her parents are Edward Moulton-Barrett, a country gentleman, and Mary Graham Clarke Mou... Posted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:44:00 PST |
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Truth or Dare |
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| Ah, taking after my friend, Lana, perhaps loosely - I am asking you to ask me questions here of any kind, and I will do my best to answer them all.
Feel free to ask me quite literally anyth... Posted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:23:00 PST |
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The Poetess Behind The Poetess - Updated - 1/12/07 |
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Spanish Night Masquerade
Night, and it was there,a masquerade ; a festivalin array, delight, carnival... Spanish gypsies flare ..fluttering skirts circling round,this dream s... Posted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:23:00 PST |
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E.B.B On ... |
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| This is still VERY MUCH a work in progress.
On Florence:
- (June, 1854) "I love Florence -- the place looks exquisitely beautiful in its garden ground of vineyards and olive trees, sung round by... Posted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:38:00 PST |
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The First Letter |
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| The quote in Barrett's poem, Lady Geraldine's Courtship, st. 41 (1844), about R. Browning:
Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctur... Posted by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:26:00 PST |
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