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BAYLOR UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE TO EXAMINE POET ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING'S LIFE, WORK

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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20060215
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Baylor University, a component of the public university system in Texas, issued the following news release:

The well-known Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was 55 years old when she died in the arms of her husband, Robert Browning, at their home in Florence, Italy, in 1861. Their union was considered to be one of the greatest literary romances ever known.

Now, 200 years after her birth (March 6, 1806), the life of the woman who dared to be untraditional in her poetry will be celebrated next month during an international conference at Baylor. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is widely ...

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