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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