Notwithstanding EBB
's later assertion in Sonnets from the Portuguese that I lived with visions for my company / Instead of men and women, years ago,
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols.
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the fact that she seldom went out...
Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This inheritance, along with a share in a West Indian trading vessel left to her by her uncle Sam
on his death in December 1837, gave her an economic independence from her father that her...