num_pages: 128
description: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning captures the remarkable love story of the renowned poets behind these famous words, from their dramatic elopement in 1846 to Elizabeth's tragic death in 1861. Their romance began with a letter fromRobert admiring Elizabeth's highly acclaimed book, Poems . When her father disapproved, they married in secret and boldly moved to Florence, Italy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning describes how their love and lives flourished there, producing one son, writing some of their mostrenowned works, and maintaining friendships with some of the most prominent literati of their time, including John Ruskin, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
language: English
title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
titlecomplete: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (British Library Writers' Lives Series)
genres: Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Oxford University Press