The English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning is probably best known for her collection of poetry, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), a collection of love lyrics, which was written during her courtship with her husband Robert Browning. Elizabeth was bought up by a family that attended services at the nearest dissenting chapel and her father was active for years in Bible missionary societies. Elizabeth herself went through an evangelical “phase” and it is not clear how much she retained her faith as she developed an interest in spiritualism. However, she wrote a number of pieces about social injustice including the slave trade in America and the labor of children in the mines and mills of England.
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