I am holding my grandmother’s copy of Sonnets from the Portuguese, printed in 1915, long before an ISBN existed. Despite its flowery language, it sings to me. As I read the words my grandmother loved, ...
Readers chiefly remember Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), whose two hundred seventeenth birthday we mark today, as a Victorian master of the sonnet. Many readers, familiar with her famous ...
Elizabeth Browning Barrett "Bess", of Billings, MT, went to her home in heaven on January 15, 2024, at the age of 90. She was thought by many to be an angel in disguise because of her heart of pure ...