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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, written in the Victorian period, deals with gender issue in the nineteenth century. Aurora Leigh, Barrett Browning’s longest poem, is in the form of epic poem and written in verse novel. The title of the poem bears the name of the narrator of the poem, and the protagonist serves as the mouthpiece of the poet Barrett Browning, a leading literary figure in the Victorian period. Aurora, as a woman, tries to position women in poetry writing, which was once considered to be written only by men, and thus wants to represent them not as an inferior gender but as equal to man. In order to reveal the women’s issue within a social, political, economic and historical context and complex power structures, cultural materialism has been used as a theory.