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ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Birth Dates and Places:

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB): March 6, 1806; Coxhoe Hall, Northumberland, England

• Robert Browning (RB): May 7, 1812; Camberwell, England (a suburb of London)

Date of Marriage:

• September 12, 1846, at St. Marylebone Parish Church, London; RB was 34 years old; EBB was 40 years old

Death Dates and Places:

• EBB: June 29, 1861 (55 years old); Casa Guidi in Florence, Italy; buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Florence

• RB: December 12, 1889 (77 years old); Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice, Italy, at the son's home; buried on December 31, 1889, in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London

Other:

• The famous love letters, written between EBB and RB before their marriage, number 573

• Due to Mr. Barrett's opposition to their marriage, RB and EBB married secretly and a week later traveled to Florence, Italy, where their son was born in 1849 (EBB was 43 years old)

ROBERT WIEDEMAN BARRETT BROWNING (PEN)

Birth Date and Place: March 9, 1849; Casa Guidi in Florence, Italy

Date of Marriage: October 4, 1887; to Fannie Coddington, an American heiress

Death Date and Place: July 8, 1912 (63 years old); Asolo, Italy, where he was first buried and then moved to the English Cemetery in Florence, Italy

Other:

• Pen was 12 years old when EBB died and moved with RB to London shortly after her death

• Pen studied painting with Jean-Arnould Hyermans in Antwerp, Belgium, and sculpture with Auguste Rodin in Paris

• Pen and his wife never divorced, but they did not live together after 1893; they had no children so there are no direct descendants of the Brownings