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The Intimations of "Aurora Leigh" in Elizabeth Barrett's Love Letters

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The last letters in the courtship of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning deal of course with all the practical aspects of what was to be the run away match of the century. But they also reveal feelings, attitudes and modes of writing that will grow and become the trademark of the mature Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, in particular "Aurora Leigh". One finds in them an interest in ordinary people's lives, a sense of humour, a resistance to masculine authority and an assertion of equality between the genders that will all be at the heart of her great poem.