![]() Living at Wimpole Street, in London, Browning wrote prolifically between 18, producing poetry, translation and prose. During this time she contracted a disease, possibly tuberculosis, which weakened her further. Browning's first adult collection The Seraphim and Other Poems was published in 1838. In the 1830s Barrett's cousin John Kenyon introduced her to prominent literary figures of the day such as William Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Carlyle. She took laudanum for the pain, which may have led to a lifelong addiction and contributed to her weak health. At 15 Browning became ill, suffering from intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life, rendering her frail. ![]() She wrote poetry from around the age of six and this was compiled by her mother, comprising what is now one of the largest collections extant of juvenilia by any English writer. ![]() Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.īorn in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Browning was educated at home. ![]()
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