Download or read book The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume 1 written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... In a recent "Memoir of Elizabeth Barrett Browning," by John H. Ingram, it is observed that "such essays on her personal history as have appeared, either in England DEGREES or elsewhere, are replete with mistakes or misstatements." e For these he proposes to substitute "a correct if short memoir: " but, kindly and appreciative as may be Mr. Ingram's performance, there occur not a few passages in it equally "mistaken and misstated." i. "Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Edward Moulton Barrett, was born in London on the 4th of March, 1809." The eldest daughter died in childhood. . Elizabeth was born, March 6, 1806, at Coxhoe Hall, West Durham, the residence of her father's brother.* f "Before she was eleven she composed an epic on 'Marathon.'" She was then fourteen. * The entry in the Parish Register is as follows: -- Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett V. and Mary his wife, born at Coxhoe Hall, county of Durham, on '*] Thursday, March the sixth, at seven o'clock in the evening, in the year '1806. Privately baptized on Sunday, the 9th of the same month, by the Rev. William Lewis Rham, A.B., Rector of Fersfield, in Norfolk. Publickly baptized on the nth of February, 1808, at Kelloe Church, I in the County of Durham. 2. "It is said that Mr. Barrett was a man of intellect and culture, and therefore able to direct his daughter's education; but be that so or not, he obtained for her the tutorial assistance of the well-known Greek scholar Hugh Stuart Boyd . . . who was also a writer of fluent verse: and his influence and instruction doubtless confirmed Miss Barrett in her poetical aspirations." Mr. Boyd, early deprived of sight from over-study, resided at Malvern, and cared for little else than Greek literature, espec

Download or read book The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 Of 2 written by Frederic George Kenyon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) By Frederic George Kenyon Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, still better known to the world as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was born on March 6, 1806, the eldest child of Edward and Mary Moulton Barrett. I Both the date and place of her birth have been matters of uncertainty and dispute, and even so trustworthy an authority as the 'Dictionary of National Biography' is inaccurate with respect to them. All doubt has, however, been set at rest by the discovery of the entry of her birth in the parish register of Kelloe Church, in the county of Durham. She was born at Coxhoe Hall, the residence of Mr. Barrett's only brother, Samuel, about five miles south of the city of Durham. Her father, whose name was originally Edward Barrett Moulton, had assumed the additional surname of Barrett on the death of his maternal grandfather, to whose estates in Jamaica he was the heir. Of Mr. Barrett it is recorded by Mr. Browning, in the notes prefixed by him to the collected edition of his wife's poems, that 'on the early death of his father he was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as a ward of the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on circuit. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Download or read book Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by F.G.Kenyon. From 1806 to 1851, ranging from early life in Devon to marriage to Browning and Florentine Life.