TWA poets: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

Married 1846

On this day in 1846, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning got married — secretly — at St. Marylebone Parish Church in London. She was 39, an invalid, and reliant on morphine to ease her pain, and she had never been married because her father forbade it. She was a poet famous around the world. Robert Browning was a famous poet, too, six years younger th…