After twenty months of correspondence and meetings, they eloped and moved to Italy. His admiration for Barrett as a poet was not unusual, "for Elizabeth Barrett was a famous and respected writer whose work was considered learned, innovative, obscure, and difficult as well as expressive and moving" (Mermin 351). The love story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning began in 1845 when Robert wrote to Elizabeth in praise of her poetry. The work that most symbolizes this reading of Elizabeth Barrett Browning the poet, in the minds of her time period and still some today, is "Sonnets from the Portuguese." This 1850 addition to her collection, Poems, earned her both the highest praise and later, dismissal, based on a biographical interpretation of her work. Lizabeth Barrett Browning was a respected working poet for many years before her courtship and marriage to Robert Browning, yet it seems that her memory is most often reduced to the phrase, "How do I love thee." The secret epistolary romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, followed by their controversial elopement and fairytale ending of a happy marriage complete with child has fascinated readers from her contemporaries to the present.
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