Poet to Poet: How the Brownings Fell in Love by Writing Letters
It all started with fan mail
5 min readFeb 15, 2022
“I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett …” — Robert Browning’s first letter to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1845
Thirty-eight-year-old Elizabeth Barrett had long given up the hope that she would fall in love and marry when Robert Browning came into her life. Since…
