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The poetess and Dr Love; Answers to Correspondents.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20010926
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QUESTION: How was supposedly bedridden poetess Elizabeth Barrett able to leave the house in Wimpole Street unaided to elope with Robert Browning?

THERE may have been some psychological aspects to Elizabeth Barrett's invalidism and some commentators have gone so far as to suggest that her illness was purely psychosomatic and that she was miraculously 'cured' when she found love and hope with Robert Browning.

But this is a sad misrepresentation of a courageous woman who struggled through most of her adult life with illness and worked tirelessly, despite her debilitated ...

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