Ebb

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

Ebb Cade

Ebb Cade was a construction worker at Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was the first person subjected to injection with plutonium as an experiment.

ebb

Noun

1. The receding movement of the tide.
2. A gradual decline.

Adjective

1. low, shallow