A Selection From the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

Item Number: 138909

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1892.

Finely bound example of the selected poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Octavo, bound in full polished calf for Bath High School with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Bookplate.

Between 1841 and 1844, English poet of the Victorian era, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was prolific in poetry, translation, and prose, making her a rival of Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate in 1850 on the death of Wordsworth. Her volume Poems (1844) which included "A Drama of Exile", "A Vision of Poets", and "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" brought her great success, attracting the admiration of the writer Robert Browning. Their correspondence, courtship, and marriage were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. Following the wedding, she was indeed disinherited by her father. In 1846, the couple moved to Italy, where she would live for the rest of her life.