Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Battle of Marathon

originally published:
London : W. Lindsell
1820

A presentation copy from the author, one of about ten known copies of the first edition, as shown at the sale of the Spoor Library in 1939.

awards:

  • First Book(1820)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 3/6/1806
died: 6/29/1861
born as: Elizabeth Barrett

English poet whose reputation rests chiefly upon her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese. Her husband was Robert Browning. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature