"A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" is published and sold at a charity event.
In 1854 both Robert Browning and Elizabeth Browning composed poems to be sold in tandem at a fundraising bazaar for London's Ragged Schools. These poems, sold in a pamphlet entitled Two Poems, were requested by Arabella Barrett Moulton-Barrett, Elizabeth's younger sister. This work came between two other major works by Elizabeth Barret Browning, "The Cry of the Children" (1843) and Aurora Leigh (1856), which also explored themes of inequality and oppresion. Between these three works, Elizabeth saw a prolific decade and a half of social activism through poetry.