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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Fiona Sampson, author of a new biography, Two-Way MirrorThe Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, discusses the life and work of the Victorian poet. Although perhaps best known for her runaway romance with fellow poet Robert Browning, Elizabeth also battled chronic illness and family troubles to create influential activist writing and ground-breaking poetry.

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0:24.2

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0:33.9

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0:39.4

Yet it's not actually a tapestry, and it probably wasn't made in bio.

0:43.8

It tells the story of the Norman conquest, but misses out some crucial details,

0:48.2

including two of the three big battles, force in England in 1066.

0:52.2

It features sex and violence, myths and fables, and even has the hand of God.

0:59.0

We don't know how it ends, but we do know that it's supposed to be coming to the UK on loan

1:04.0

from Normandy at some point in the next few years.

1:07.0

So now is the time to really get to grips with the tapestry story in our new history extra

1:11.9

podcast series, Unravelling the Biotapestry. Join me, David Musgrove, tapestry expert Professor

1:18.5

Michael Lewis, and a panel of other leading historians, including Michael Wood and Janina Ramirez

1:23.7

for our exclusive five-part series, available to listen to now at historyextra.com forward slash

1:30.7

tapestry pod.

1:32.7

Hello and welcome to the historyextra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best selling

1:50.4

history magazine.

1:51.4

I'm Ellie Corthon. How do I love the Let Me Count the Ways? These are some of the most famous

2:07.0

lines of English poetry, and the life of the woman behind those lines was just as extraordinary

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