Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
The Barrett family had been associated with Jamaica for generations. As a boy, Elizabeth's father Edward Moulton Barrett emigrated to England with his brother and sister Sarah. Sarah is the subject of the painting "Pinkie" in the Huntington Museum. Edward and his wife, Mary Graham-Clarke, were parents of twelve children, of whom Elizabeth was the eldest.
Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born March 6, 1806 in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. In 1809, her father Edward, having made most of his considerable fortune from Jamaican sugar plantations which he inherited, bought Hope End, a 500-acre (2.0 km2) estate near the Malvern Hills in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England.