Elizabeth Barret Browning's family relocated to the Hope End Estate in Herefordshire in 1809. She would have been three years old. They would have been living here when Elizabeth's father gifted the twenty-volume Shakespeare to Elizabeth's aunt, Arabella. The family remained at Hope End until 1832, when a slave rebellion on the family's plantation in Jamaica strained the family's finances and forced them to relocate to Sidmouth in Devonshire.