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Two of world's greatest lovers - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning - were descendants of blacks. (book sheds new light on couple)(includes book excerpt and interview with author)

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From: Ebony
Date: 19950501
Author:Burns, Monique

Julia Markus' book revealing that Barrett and Browning were of mixed race is shocking the literary community. Markus deduced this theory from the couples' correspondence, which gives reference to their blackness, their photographs, and their Jamaican ancestry.

How do I love thee?" Elizabeth Barrett wrote to Robert Browning in her immortal Sonnets From the Portuguese, "Let me count the ways ...."

The ways apparently were not affected by the mixed bloodline of either poet. For, in Dared And Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, an absorbing 382-page saga recently ...

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