Promtheus Bound

Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6th March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of twelve children. Family wealth was derived from sugar plantations manned by slaves in Jamaica and enabling them to also purchase a 500 acre estate in Herefordshire. This wealth allowed her to publish poems from an early age.

However by age 20 the family’s fortunes were to decline, but never b...