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Elizabeth Barrett suffered chronic ill-health from her early teens and throughout her adult life. No adequate diagnosis was ever offered by the medical knowledge of the time - but some later critics have suggested she may have contracted rheumatic fever as a child, and never recovered (other critics suggest other possible diseases).
When Elizabeth married Robert Browning, and the pair relocated to Italy, Elizabeth's health seems to have improved a little. But she remained frail, and also suffered side-effect from the powerful painkillers (laudanum and related drugs) she was by now dependent on.
In spite of her frail health, Elizabeth managed to have a son, and survive to the age of 55 (not really young by nineteenth century standards). She eventually succumbed to some kind of pulmonary problem, though this was complicated by her lifelong poor-health, and the shock of losing her father, a close friend (G B Hunter), and her sister - in rapid succession.
No precise diagnosis of what eventually killed Elizabeth was recorded (this was normal at the time) - but the combination of lifetime poor health and an acute pulmonary problem seem to have combined to end her life.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning died from complications of a lung illness, likely tuberculosis, in 1861.
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