Elizabeth Barrett Browning Av Elizabeth Barrett Browning

<P><B>'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'</B><br><br>Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime - and remains very much loved today.<br><br>She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem <I>A Curse for a Nation</I> is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.<br><br>'I heard an angel speak last night, and he said "write! Write a nation's curse for me, and send it over the western sea" '</P>