Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

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A female given name from Hebrew, popular since the 16th century.. Etymology: tree=1 From Elizabeth, from the , a transliteration of the Old Testament tr=ʔĕlîšeḇaʕ. See El and שבועה. Isabel.

The name Elizabeth is of English origin, meaning "A female given name from Hebrew, popular since the 16th century.. Etymology: tree=1 From Elizabeth, from the , a transliteration of the Old Testament tr=ʔĕlîšeḇaʕ. See El and שבועה. Isabel.". It is traditionally a female name.

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