Sonnet XXIX | Author Biography
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England, on March 6, 1806, the oldest of her parents’ twelve children. Her father, Edward Boulton Barrett, was a sharp businessman who made a fortune from a number of sugar plantations in Jamaica. Barrett was very stern, and he ruled his home with absolute authority; his household law forbidding any of his children to marry caused a great deal of strife. Barrett Browning grew up in Hope End, her family’s country home near the Malvern Hills. As a child, she wrote a number of poems: her earliest known poem was written when she was eight,...
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