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Elizabeth Barrett Browning By the time Elizabeth was twelve, she had written her first 'epic' poem, which consisted of four books of rhyming couplets. Two years later, she developed a lung ailment that troubled her for the rest of her life. Doctors treated her with morphine until her death.

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While saddling a pony when she was fifteen, she also suffered a spinal injury. Despite her ailments, her education continued to develop. Throughout her teenage years, she taught herself Hebrew so that she could read the Old Testament; her interests later turned to Greek Studies. Accompanying her appetite for the classics was a passionate enthusiasm for her Christian faith.

Two years later, her mother passed away. The abolition of slavery in England and failed management plans on the plantations depleted the Barrett's income, and in , her father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to a coastal town and rented cottages for the next three years, before settling permanently in London. While living on the coast, Elizabeth published her translation of Prometheus Bound Gaining attention for her work in the s, Elizabeth continued to live in her father's London house under his rules.

He began sending Elizabeth's younger siblings to Jamaica to help with the family's estates.

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Elizabeth bitterly opposed slavery and did not want her siblings sent away. Due to her weakening disposition, she was forced to spend a year at the Sea of Torquay accompanied by her brother Edward. He downed later that year while sailing at Torquay, and Elizabeth returned home emotionally broken, becoming a recluse.