Elizabeth Barrett Browning Collection 1857-1946

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Collection 1857-1946

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Three holograph hymns for children, two holograph copies of a poem, an undelivered 1857 letter to Napoleon III requesting the pardon of Victor Hugo, and three pages of notes (photocopies). Also, a centenary publication which marked Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1846 marriage registration.

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Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...