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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime - and remains very much loved today. She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem A Curse for a Nation is a powerful polemic against the slave trade. 'I heard an angel speak last night, and he said "write! Write a nation's curse for me, and send it over the western sea" '
- About The Author
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in 1806 and wrote poetry from a very young age. A successful poet in her own lifetime, she was also an ardent campaigner to abolish slavery and child labour. A highly prolific author, she was a strong candidate for poet laureate, an honour which was ultimately given to Tennyson. Barrett Browning suffered ill-health for much of her life, and died in 1861 but her poetry has lived on and is highly regarded around the world.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399614085
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (28 September 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 120 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 128 x 18 mm
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