The sixteen selected sonnets, indicated by the Roman Numerals
which Elizabeth Barrett herself used, are here spread over the four pages whose links are
set out immediately left.
The accompanying commentary draws on information provided in:
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Illuminated by the Brownings’ Love Letters
edited by William S. Peterson & Julia Markus, The Ecco Press, New York 1996
The original Love Letters, in the Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College.
Mrs Browning, The Story of Elizabeth Barrett, Rosalie Mander, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, London 1980
(Rosalie Mander lived at Wightwick Manor, in Staffordshire)
Illustrations on pp. 5-7 are by Fred. A. Mayer, in Sonnets from the Portuguese,
Avenel Books, New York.
