On 6 March 1806, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born as Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett in Coxhoe, County Durham, England. Her parents were Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett, a son of the landowning "Barretts of Jamaica," and Mary Graham Clarke, whose family also benefitted from slave labor and the sugar trade in the West Indies. In addition to her famous marriage to fellow poet Robert Browning, EBB would become one of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian period and is now most known for her collection Sonnets from the Portuguese and verse novel Aurora Leigh.