Artifact 3 (Photo left)
To the left, is my husband and poet, Robert Browning, who is best known for his riveting monologues. We were secretly married (given that my father forbid marriage) on September 12, 1846 after corresponding with letters for over a year!
"Robert Browning. The Poetry of." united architects -writings. Web. 24 Mar 2011. <http://danliterature.wordpress.com/robert-browning-the-poetry-of/>.
Artifact 4 (Photo right)
To the right is me and my son, Robert (named after his father) in Rome 1960. Although, we nicknamed him Pen after the tool that inscribed meaning to my life.
"Robert Weidemann Barret Browning;Elizabeth Barrett Browning." National Portrait Gallery. Web. 24 Mar 2011. <http://www.npg.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw111433/Robert-Weidemann-Barrett-Browning-Elizabeth-Barrett-Browning>.
Did your father ever find out about your secret marriage? Or was it always a secret to him? And was your son ever a writer like you interested in fictional and nonfictional world that was written on paper?
ReplyDeleteYes, frightfully. My father did find about our marriage, which is the reason i never spoke to him again. In utter disappointment, he shunned me. As for Pen, he grew to be an artist and I feel utterly blessed to have my child accomplish his dream!
ReplyDeleteIt seems that your father was very particular about marriage and how it works, what was your view on life and marriages, seeing that you write about things like this.? And what things and lessons did you pass down to your child apposed to what your father said about certain things?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that a man with 11 children, he was so wealthy at one time, and had such financial control over all of them, and with the laws that gave women no rights whatsoever. This man felt like a country; he could take care of the women, and the boys would be subject to work for him. He had control over so much. I don't know what he could have been thinking, as he had been very happily married. I guess he felt he 'owned people' and he was a slave holder on his sugar plantations in the East Indies. Abolishing slavery in East Indies was what ruined his business.
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