As the result of an injury at the age of 15, Elizabeth's health was permanently affected. Her family moved to London in 1838, where she published her first collection of poems, The Seraphim and Other Poems, that same year. She spent 3 years in Devon because of her health, but returned to London on the death of her brother by drowning. In 1844, she published her second collection. Poems, which was hugely popular and brought the affections of Robert Browning and after a secret courtship, they were married in 1846. The Brownings moved to Pisa in Italy, where Elizabeth wrote The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1848), and settled in Florence. She died in her husband's arms after suffering a severe chill in the summer of 1861. Among her most popular works are Sonnets from the Portugese (1850), Aurora Leigh (1857) and Poems Before Congress (1860). |
