What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 poet lived here 1838-1841 Recorded plaque organisation: Torbay Civic Society.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prominent English poet known for her sonnet sequence "Sonnet from the Portuguese" and her work challenging social norms; she lived here from 1838 to 1841 before eloping with Robert Browning.
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