Letter and portraits, ca. 1850.

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Letter and portraits, ca. 1850.

Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter addressed to a Mrs. Owen. The date of the item is uncertain. Browning wishes Owen happiness in her recent marriage. Also included are photocopies of three etching portraits of Browning.

4 items (5 pages).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8311225

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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...