![]() ![]() ![]() She was tutored alongside her brother and would prove to be very advanced for her age. He moved his wife and twelve children into a beautiful mansion which he designed himself in an Ottoman style with the most opulent interiors making use of the finest materials.Įlizabeth grew up in an affluent setting and received a good education from home. With her father choosing to keep his family in England, whilst maintaining his business interests in Jamaica, by 1809 he could afford a vast 500 acre estate in Ledbury, Hertfordshire. Her grandfather had ownership of several plantations in the British West Indies as well as mills, glassworks and ships which travelled between Newcastle and Jamaica. This fortune had been accumulated, on both sides of the family, from plantation ownership in Jamaica. ![]() Her early life began in the northeast of England in County Durham where she was born on 6th March 1806, the eldest of twelve children.Įlizabeth would benefit from a very comfortable and happy childhood as a result of her family’s immense wealth. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a celebrated Victorian poet, famous not only for her love sonnets to her husband but her use of poetry to address social issues of the day. ![]()
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