I've been reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and as I read through Aurora's early life and adolescence, I came to wonder if the poem was inspired at all by Barrett Browning's own childhood and later life. For instance, I'm aware from some brief background reading that the author was in part cared for by her aunt after her mother's death in her early twenties, mirroring Aurora's relationship to her aunt, who takes care of her after both her parents died.

Are these parallels indeed part of a larger scheme of connections between Aurora Leigh and Elizabeth Barrett Browning?