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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040127
Author:Tracey Lawson

A RARE insight into a doomed love affair between Robert Browning and a Victorian intellectual is revealed in a forgotten literary archive which has lain unopened for four decades.

Correspondence between the 19th-century poet and Julia Wedgwood is expected to fetch up to GBP 100,000 when the literary memorabilia of the late Halsted vander Poel is auctioned later this year.

The letters show how the romance was overshadowed by the writer's devotion to his late wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. More poignantly, they offer an insight into the etiquette which governed romantic liaisons in ...

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