this is a sample of elizabeth barrett browning's materials. it is a set that she prepared for the printer in order to publish the sonets in 1850. inside are her hand-written sonets. the interesting story about the sonets from the port portuguese, these were written at love sonets from elizabeth to, and during d done during their courtship time, 1845 to 1846, when they were published in 1850, elizabeth had given the poems to browning in 1849, and he thought they were some of the most beautiful sonets he ever read and thought they should be published. she did prepare this set for the printer, and they called them sonetted from the portuguese as a way of veiling the fact that they were love sonets from her to him. he did call her, my little portuguese, as a pet name. she did have a dark complexion. she was also interested in a portuguese poet. so, sonets from the portuguese, they also saw it perhaps people would think they were traps places from a portuguese poet. day were trying to veil it, but they were published in the back of elizabeth's poem