Ever Faithfully Yours,

Ever Faithfully Yours is an original one-act musical based on the life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert Browning. This thesis captures the life, letters, and poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the form of a song cycle. The story explores her passionate relationship with poet, Robert Browning, as well as her complex relationship to her father, Edward Moulton Barrett. In developing this musical, I utilized Armstrong Browning Library’s extensive collection of extant letters, documents, and books to blend history with fiction to create a dramatized portrayal of Elizabeth’s early life and her courtship with Robert Browning and her marriage to the poet.