Robert Browning
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- Robert Browning
- Born in London in 1812 to a deeply religious mother
- Father was a bank clerk who collected books - he had over 6000 of them
- At 12 he wrote his first poetry collection
- Lived with parents until he was 33
- Considered an experit in the dramatic monologue poem
- Many of his characters reflected the moral decay of Victorian Society
- In 1844 he read poems by Elizabeth Barrett - he wrote to her and they started to write to each other regularly
- Elizabeth and Robert met and fell in love, but as she was ill, her father was very protective - he had forbidden her to ever get married
- In 1846 they got married in secret and ran away to Itay where they had a son
- She died in 1861 and he returned to England
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