Elizabeth Barrett Browning brown plaque

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# 50 Wimpole Street At this very address, Elizabeth Barrett spent eight formative years confined to her bedroom by her domineering father and her own fragile health, transforming her isolation into one of literature's most powerful poetic voices. It was here, between 1838 and 1846, that she wrote s...

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50 Wimpole Street

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Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Poetess, afterwards wife of Robert Browning, lived here 1838-1846