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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet and writer.
The 270th most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 1530 quotations (about 0.04% of all OED quotations).
See article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Total number of quotations1530Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a word133Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a particular meaning415Find quotations
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