Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit, and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew – and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime – and very much loved today. She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem ‘A Curse for a Nation’ is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.
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‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew – and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime – and remains very much loved today.
She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem A Curse for a Nation is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.
‘I heard an angel speak last night, and he said “write! Write a nation’s curse for me, and send it over the western sea” ‘
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| Weight | 0.38 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.7 cm |
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