# Elizabeth Barrett Browning — On the Art of Reading character guide

> Elizabeth Barrett Browning in On the Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Browning

**First appearance:** 0005-lecture-iii-children-s-reading-i

## Who they are

The Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cited for her poetry and sonnets.

## In the story

### [Lecture I: Introductory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/on_the_art_of_reading_se/chapters/lecture-i-introductory)

Her poem 'A Death in the Desert' is quoted to introduce the doctrine of the three souls: What Does, What Knows, What Is.

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