Barrett Browning's first known poem was written at the age of six or eight, "On the Cruelty of Forcement to Man" [REF].
Her first independent publication was "Stanzas Excited by Reflections on the Present State of Greece" in The New Monthly Magazine of May 1821;[REF] followed two months later by "Thoughts Awakened by Contemplating a Piece of the Palm which Grows on the Summit of the Acropolis at Athens" [REF].