Woman writing with a quill beside an open window overlooking a garden

J140 How do i love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Bronte

  Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett was born on Thursday, March 6, 1806, the eldest child of Edward Moulton-Barrett (1785–1857) and Mary Graham-Clarke (1781–1828), at Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, England.   Both come from families with extensive plantations in Jamaica, where her father Edward was born and lived until the age of seven. The Barretts left Coxhoe in the Autumn of 1808 and, […]