Supporting Documents

SD2479. George Goodin Moulton-Barrett to Editor of The Guardian

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 297–298.

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24 July 1861

Sir-

… Her father was at no period of his life a merchant; but soon after he left Cambridge he purchased a property in Herefordshire, when he resided many years. In regard to my sister’s early education being cramped, I may state that, on the contrary, it was of a singularly enlarged and comprehensive character. Her great love of literature, in every language and in all ages, being quite unchecked even when quite young in life. Her education was entirely self-regulated. [1]

G.G. Barrett.

Text: The Guardian, 24 July 1861, p. 707.

1. George is responding to a notice ot EBB’s death in The Guardian, 10 July 1861, p. 659, saying her father “was a merchant and a Dissenter, and her early education was of that austere and somewhat narrow kind which often cramps, but if it cannot cramp, sometimes, by its very resistance, stimulates genius.”

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