Ministry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan state university of world languages english language faculty №1 Course paper Theme: Robert Browning and Elisabeth Browning their life and work

CHAPTER.II. Elisabeth Browning and her biography.
2.1. Elisabeth Browning and her biography.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née Elizabeth Barrett, was an English poet best known for her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese, and Aurora Leigh, the latter of which is now regarded as an early feminist work. She was born on March 6, 1806, not far from Durham in Durham County, England, and died on June 29, 1861, in Florence, Italy. Robert Browning was her husband. Elizabeth was Edward Barrett Moulton's oldest child (later Edward Moulton Barrett). She spent the majority of her formative years in a Worcestershire rural house with views of the Malvern Hills, where she was incredibly content. But when she was 15, she suffered a serious illness that was probably caused by a spinal injury, which had a long-lasting impact on her health. The family relocated to Sidmouth, Devon, in 1832, then to London in 1836, where they settled down at 50 Wimpole Street in 1838. Her first collection, The Seraphim and Other Poems, was published in 1838 after she moved to London and began contributing to many publications. She spent the following three years in Torquay, Devon, due to health concerns. She acquired an almost obsessive fear of meeting anyone outside of a tiny circle of intimates after her brother, Edward, drowned and died. However, she was well-known in the literary community, and her second collection of poems, Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, was well-received in 1844. Robert Browning, a poet, wrote her a letter in January 1845. It starts out by saying, "I love your lines with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett," and ends, "I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart—and I love you too." The two met in the early summer. Elizabeth's tyrannical father, who she stood in some fear of, was not made aware of their courtship, which is chronicled in their daily letters. They were married on September 12, 1846, despite her reluctance to get hitched, according to Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850). Elizabeth stayed at home for another week without her father's knowledge. Then the Brownings departed for Pisa. Elizabeth was still angry with Barrett when he passed away in 1857. She wrote The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, a protest against slavery in the United States, while she was in Pisa (Boston, 1848; London, 1849). After that, the couple made their home in Florence, where Robert Wiedemann Barrett, their lone child, was born in 1849. The couple traveled to London between 1851 and 1855. The longest blank-verse poem she ever wrote, Aurora Leigh (1857), which depicts the intricate and melodramatic love affair between a young girl and an unwise benefactor, was finished during the second visit by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Although it was a big commercial success, this work did not particularly please most critics. In the final years of her life, Browning became interested in spiritualism and the occult, but her primary focus on Italian politics consumed most of her energy and attention to the concern of her closest friends. She still had faith in Napoleon III because Casa Guidi Windows (1851) had been an intentional ploy to gain sympathy for the Florentines. The poem "A Curse for a Nation," which was intended to criticize American slavery, was misinterpreted as criticizing England in Poems Before Congress (1860). Browning passed away in the summer of 1861 after contracting a severe chill.