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Love lost and found - The Lives of Elizabeth and Robert Browning.
From: World and I
Date: 20021001
Author:Timko, Michael
Michael Timko is professor emeritus of the City University of New York. His article "Queen Victoria and Mrs. Brown" appeared in the May 2002 issue of The World & I.
THE LOVE AFFAIR OF ELIZABETH BARRETT AND ROBERT BROWNING, TWO ALMOST FORGOTTEN nineteenth-century poets, deserves to be better known to our generation, whose idea of love has been nurtured by watching Friends. While their story might seem quaint, even curious, to many today, from the time of their first exchange of letters in 1845, when Elizabeth was a 39-year-old invalid, to her death in 1861, there was never a ...
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